For they are forgetting that by the faith itself they are more obliged than ever to measure up to these duties, each according to his proper vocation. (14) Nor, on the contrary, are they any less wide of the mark who think that religion consists in acts of worship alone and in the discharge of certain moral obligations, and who imagine they can plunge themselves into earthly affairs in such a way as to imply that these are altogether divorced from the religious life.
Tout ce qu'il y a de vrai, de bon, de juste, dans les institutions très variées que s'est donné et que continue à se donner le genre humain, le Concile le considère donc avec un grand respect.