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Le Pelerinage de Lourdes §45 — Tolle Lege

Encyclicals (Pre-V2)

Pope Pius XII

Le Pelerinage de Lourdes §45

Le Pelerinage de Lourdes

⁴⁵ But the world, which today affords so many justifiable reasons for pride and hope, is also undergoing a terrible temptation to materialism which has been denounced by Our Predecessors and Ourselves on many occasions.

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Source: Le Pelerinage de Lourdes (Vatican.va)