UNTIL THE HUMAN RACE HAS RETURNED TO GOD

“Just as the disorder of the senses once hurled famous cities into a sea of fire, so in our own time the want of piety in public life and the erection of atheism into a system of so-called civilisation have hurled the world into a sea of blood… The present calamities will not come to an end until the human race has returned to God.”

Benedict XV, Consistorial Allocution, December 24th, 1917