tificate glorious. You have preferred the men of the syllogism to the men of profound and positive knowledge as though the salvation of the Church lay, not in the objective establishment of historical truth, as your predecessor desired it should, but in maintaining intact traditions which are devoid of meaning and foundation; you have regarded as a blasphemer the man who was able to demonstrate the insufficiency of the proofs of the miraculous translation of the Holy House of Loretto—as if the worship paid to the Blessed Virgin were founded upon its historical reality. And as if in fear that the religious and moral value of the Bible and its inspiration should fall along with the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch, you introduced into the Biblical Commission—the first gathering of Catholic scholars in the teaching Church of our day—a flock of theologians who might bleat in chorus the litanies of those arguments which support all traditional theses,
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