In the midst of the grave difficulties with which the Church must contend today, the heart of the Supreme Pastor is greatly comforted, Venerable Brothers, when We see that virginity, which is flourishing throughout the world, is held in great honor and repute in the present as it was in past centuries, even though, as We have said, it is being attacked by errors which, We trust, will soon be dispelled and pass away.
In gravibus difficultatibus, quas hodie Ecclesia eluctari debet, Noster Supremi Pastoris animus magno solacio afficitur, Venerabiles Fratres, cum cernimus virginitatem, quae ubique terrarum floret, nostra quoque ut superioribus aetatibus, magna in aestimatione magnoque in honore esse, quamvis, ut diximus, erroribus impugnetur, quos tamen, ut evanidos, quam primum dilapsuros confidimus.vatican.va vatican.va