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95. For precisely this reason, Christian education takes in the whole aggregate of human life, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, individual, domestic and social, not with a view of reducing it in any way, but in order to elevate, regulate and perfect it, in accordance with the example and teaching of Christ.

96. Hence the true Christian, product of Christian education, is the supernatural man who thinks, judges and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illumined by the supernatural light of the example and teaching of Christ; in other words, to use the current term, the true and finished man of character. For, it is not every kind of consistency and firmness of conduct based on subjective principles that makes true character, but only constancy in following the eternal principles of justice, as is admitted even by the pagan poet when he praises as one and the same "the man who is just and firm of purpose." And on the other hand, there cannot be full justice except in giving to God what is due to God, as the true Christian does . . .

Pius XI reigned as Pope from 1922 through 1939.

Most famous for establishing the Feast of Christ the King, the Encyclical above on the Christian Education of Youth is consistent with Pius XI’s mission to emphasize Christ’s Kingship over all areas of human life. The full text of this encyclical is available online from the Papal Archives at: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi.