"Thus the Father of His Country and the pioneer pastor of the Church in that land so dear to Us, bound together by the ties of friendship and clasping, so to speak, each the other's hand..."
This makes me think of a Freemasonic handshake, the Church sucked into the aims of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. The wording is peculiar, that's for sure. "... clasping, so to speak, each the other's hand..."?
It's like in the NFP Allocution to Midwifes, when he talks about "so-called 'indications'" in quotes. This is all vague gobbeldygook that is only slightly more orthodox-sounding than the sloppy, impenetrably diffuse verbal ecstasies of Ratzinger.
I can't resist one more, from the 1953 On Psychotherapy and Religion. He probably wasn't a Pope by this time.
"Even if there were question of a dynamism involving all men, peoples, epochs, and cultures, what an invaluable help this would be for the search after God and the affirmation of His existence!"
This isn't quite as bad in context as it sounds out of context. The general tone is that he hopes that science will DEEPEN our knowledge of God, not replace it. But it's still bad and smacks of a cautious Teilhardism, slipped in, once again, among mostly orthodox statements. We do not need to "search" for God nor do we need to affirm His existence, which is a fact. He came and was crucified on the Cross. Does knowing about an extra planet somewhere make us marvel any more at God's creation than a simple glance at the heavens can make us marvel?
And has science really deepened anyone's faith? Come on! It's nothing but Jєωs like Sagan and Einstein telling us that we are insignificant specks in an ever-expanding universe -- Nietzschean existentialism meets pothead sci-fi -- or Darwin saying that we were formerly monkeys. Yeah, this was a real aid to faith, it really helped a lot of people affirm the existence of God.