It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

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.

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

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].

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.