Sapientiae Christianae

On the chief duties of Christians as citizens.

Encyclical letter, Sapientiae Christianae, January tenth, eighteen ninety.

From day to day it becomes more and more evident how needful it is that the principles of Christian wisdom should be ever borne in mind, and that the life, the morals, and the institutions of nations should be wholly conformed to them.

From the fact of these principles having been disregarded, mischiefs so vast have accrued that no right-minded man can face the trials of the time being without grave solicitude, nor contemplate the future without serious alarm.