What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!