The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan.

But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

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

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

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.