Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

Catholics are born for combat.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.