In writing, not long ago, of what he has found in the Movement for a Better World, Fr Ludwig Tovini, Italian Dominican member of the movement's promoting group, referred, amongst other things, to an equilibrium between the grandiose wish to change the world and the realistically moderated belief in the possibility of change, and advocacy of it, without Utopian optimism that would banish the existence of evil from the earth. Such equilibrium, difficult to maintain on account of continually having to avoid die danger of falling into one excess or another, is not so common, Fr Tovini went on to say, even in the Catholic field, ours being an age when ‘whimsical hankerings after originality often lead to the taking up of unbalanced or eccentric positions …'.

A ‘better world’ Pope Pius XII defined as being a world ‘more according to the heart of God', giving to this relative concept an essentially Christian value.