1. The violent persecution which the Catholic Church in some parts
of Europe and South America now suffers, verifies the expression
of the Holy Father that anti‐Christianity—that is, modern
civilization—is incompatible with Catholicity.
2. The certain result of a systematically‐arranged combat against
the church of Christ, as well as against Christianity itself and
the essential foundations of society, will be the dissolution of
social and political order, endless war, and the destruction of
the nation’s rights.
3. The re‐establishment of permanent and national order is only to
be looked for when political independence is again restored to the
Holy See, and when all those rights are recognized which belong to
the head of the Catholic Church by virtue of divine dispensation
and historical development.