Itaque de consociationibus civium, quales, divini cultus exercendi causa, lex constitui iubet, sic decernimus, nullo eas pacto conflari posse, quin sanctissima iura, quae ad vitam ipsam Ecclesiae pertinent, violentur. — Dimissis vero consociationibus istis, quas probare Nos quidem conscientia officii prohibemur, opportunum videri potest experiri, an liceat, earum loco, aliquod aliud institui consociationum genus, quod simul legitimum sit et canonicum, atque ita laboriosissima, quae imminent tempora, catholicis Gallis defendere.
4. Putting aside, therefore, these associations which the knowledge of Our duty forbids us to approve, it might appear opportune to examine whether it is lawful to make trial in their place of some other sort of associations at once legal and canonical, and thus to preserve the Catholics of France from the grave complications which menace them.vatican.va vatican.va