The whole document is an attack against the Government schools, simply
because in them the Catholic religion is not taught, threatening with
hell those parents who send their children to such schools. At the
close it says as follows:
As a first step, after you have let the parents see the
social evils which result from a Godless school, such as
crime against purity, murder, suicide, rapine and robbery,
disobedience against civil and ecclesiastical authorities,
in short, the corruption of customs, all the seasoned fruit
of those lay schools, your reverences should influence them
to declare, in writing or communications which they should
address to us, to the government without euphemisms their
irrevocable and decided will that Christian education be
given them in the schools. We, for our part, will look after
the sending of these petitions to the Legislature.