Speaking with all due respect, it was obviously less important to transform Catholic faith in the Bible, than to render Catholic faith in the word of Christ efficacious.

It must be shown that, in general, the faithful praise Christ with their lips, but that the heart of the people is far from Him; it must further be shown how much egoism enters into a certain form of fervent piety which many believed to be a source of sanctification.
Here Don Paolo and Minucci protested, grumbling: "This has nothing to do with the question." Salvati exclaimed that it had much to do with it, and he begged them to listen to him patiently.

He continued, alluding to a general perversion of the sense of Christian duty as regards the desire for, and the use of, riches; a perversion it would be very difficult to eradicate, it having--In the course of centuries, and with the full sanction of the clergy--taken deep root in the human conscience.
"The times, gentlemen," the old monk exclaimed, "demand a Franciscan movement.

Now I see no signs of such a movement.

I see ancient religious orders which no longer have power to influence society.