Letter of Pope Leo XIII

Beloved Son, health and apostolic benediction.

We have received the two volumes recently published by you, in one of which you discourse on Justice, while in the other you explain the Encyclical Letter that We issued not long ago concerning Christian Democracy. Each work is assuredly suited to the present time and most useful. Since, moreover, We are not unaware of the excellence of your talent and of the learning that you imbibed at Rome in the Gregorian University, We have no doubt at all that you have treated lucidly and correctly the subject that you undertook, one indeed commensurate with your powers. We therefore thank you for this dutiful service. And as a token of Our paternal benevolence and a pledge of divine gifts, We most lovingly in the Lord impart to you the apostolic benediction.

Given at Rome, at Saint Peter's, on the twentieth day of May in the year 1901, the twenty-fourth year of Our Pontificate.

LEO XIII, POPE

TO THE BELOVED SON

A. VERMEERSCH, S.J.

Louvain

I, JOSEPH DE VOS, Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in Belgium, by the authority granted to me for this purpose by the Very Reverend Father LOUIS MARTIN, Superior General of the same Society, grant permission for the work entitled Questions on Justice for Present-Day Use, Scholastically Disputed, Second Edition, Enlarged and More Accurate, composed by Father ARTHUR VERMEERSCH, a priest of the Society of Jesus, and duly examined and approved by the appointed censors, to be committed to the press.

In testimony whereof I have issued these letters, signed with my own hand and fortified with my seal.

Brussels, 7 July 1904.

J. De Vos, S.J.