Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.

If socialism be simply a desire for justice, and a constant determination to come to the help of the weak and the suffering, who can claim to give more thought to the matter and work with more energy than ourselves?
Has not the Church always been the mother of the afflicted, the helper and benefactress of the poor?
We are for all reasonable progress, we admit all new social forms which will promote peace and fraternity....

Only we can but condemn that socialism which begins by driving away God as a means of ensuring the happiness of mankind.

Therein lies simple savagery, an abominable relapse into the primitive state in which there can only be catastrophe, conflagration, and massacre.

And that again is a point on which you have not laid sufficient stress, for you have not shown in your book that there can be no progress outside the pale of the Church, that she is really the only initiatory and guiding power to whom one may surrender oneself without fear.