The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.