Sunday, August 29, 2021

What do fashions do?

 

 It is often said almost with passive resignation
that fashions reflect the customs of a people.
But it would be more exact and much more useful to say
that they express the decision and moral direction that a nation intends to take:
either to be shipwrecked in licentiousness
or maintain itself at the level to which it has been raised by
religion and civilization. 
 
Pope Pius XII

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