Summary: Sermon titled "The Need for Double Vision to Handle Joys and Sorrows" given on Wednesday March 19, 2014. Size: 3.2 MB; duration: 09:21. "After having spoken of the necessity of still greater devotion to the Holy Patriarch and Patron of the Church, Saint Joseph, because of the ravages of "Naturalism," that awful pest of our epoch... The advent of a Universal Republic, which is longed for by all the worst elements of disorder, and confidently expected by them, is an idea which is now ripe for execution. From this republic, based on the principles of absolute equality of men and community of possessions, would be banished all national distinctions, nor in it would the authority of the father over his children, or of the public power over the citizens, or of God over human society, be any longer acknowledged. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of terror. Already even now a large portion of Europe is going through that doleful experience and We see that it is sought to extend that awful state of affairs to other regions." -- Pope Benedict XV, speaking about his motu proprio on Saint Joseph from July 25, 1920
