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Pacem in Terris

PT · Encyclique · Jean XXIII · 1963 · ES · 172 paragraphes · vatican.va ↗ · AAS 55, p. 257 ↗
p. 294

Today the universal common good presents us with problems which are world-wide in their dimensions; problems, therefore, which cannot be solved except by a public authority with power, organization and means co-extensive with these problems, and with a world-wide sphere of activity. Consequently the moral order itself demands the establishment of some such general form of public authority.