Then he put the key in his pocket.

No doubt, when night had fallen, he himself would throw the proofs of the crime into the Tiber.

However, on coming back from the cupboard he noticed the two priests, who naturally had watched him; and with mingled grandeur and simplicity he said to them: "Gentlemen, I need not ask you to be discreet.

There are scandals which we must spare the Church, which is not, cannot be guilty.

To deliver one of ourselves, even when he is a criminal, to the civil tribunals, often means a blow for the whole Church, for men of evil mind may lay hold of the affair and seek to impute the responsibility of the crime even to the Church itself.