I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.

The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.