Other doctrines may not be so essential, but they must not be regarded as unimportant.
Personally I wish the Church to hold her dogmas, because I would do nothing to widen the gulf which separates us from the other great Churches, the Roman and the Eastern.

The greatest political aim of humanity, in my opinion, is a super-state, and that can only come through a Church universal.

How we all longed for it during the war!--one voice above the conflict, the voice of the Church, the voice of Christ! If the Pope had only spoken out, with no reference to the feelings of the Austrian Emperor!--what a gain that would have been for religion.

But the great authentic voice never sounded.

Instead of the successor of St.Peter we had to content ourselves with the American Press--excellent, no doubt, but hardly satisfying.
Let me tell you a rather striking remark by an Italian friend of mine, an editor of an Italian review, and not a Roman Catholic.