 His huge "Opus de Theologicis Disciplinis" expounded not the private views of a theologian, but those of the Augustinian Order and therefore had a semi-official status in the Catholic Church.He was denounced to the Holy Office as a Jansenist by two French bishops.In December 1750 Pope Benedict XIV wrote a letter to one of them saying that the work had been submitted to competent theologians who had judged it to be sound; to the other he wrote a letter in May 1751 saying that nothing had been found in his work contrary to any decision of the Church.