'We cannot restrain Our tears, when We see that some
Italians now are so wicked and so wretchedly deceived that they admire
the vile teachings of impious men. In fact, they are not afraid to plot
with them for this great destruction of Italy. You are aware indeed,
that the goal of this most iniquitous plot is to drive people to
overthrow the entire order of human affairs and to draw them over to the
wicked theories of this Socialism and Communism, by
confusing them with perverted teachings. But these enemies realize that
they cannot hope for any agreement with the Catholic Church, which
allows neither tampering with truths proposed by faith, nor adding any
new human fictions to them. This is why they try to draw the Italian
people over to Protestantism, which in their deceit they repeatedly
declare to be only another form of the same true religion of Christ,
thereby just as pleasing to God.'
