It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.

The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

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.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.