We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence.

If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.