Charity is being dissolved in the most sincerely Catholic hearts into a dark mud, full of the worms of hatred.
I see Catholicism cracking in many places, and I see the ancient idolatry upon which it has raised itself bursting forth through the cracks.

What few youthful, healthy, and vital energies appear within it, all tend to separate from it.

I know that you are a radical Catholic, that you are the friend of a man who is really sound and strong, and who calls himself a Catholic, but who is pronounced a heretic by true Catholics; and a heretic he certainly is.

I have been told you are a pupil of this noble heretic, who labours for reforms and who, at the same time, tries to influence the Pontiff.

Now, I myself am looking for a great reformer, but he must be an antipope; not antipope in the narrow, historical sense, but an antipope in the Lutheran sense of the word.