The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’