6           Under such conditions, Catholics must reject a peaceful coexistence of the Church with Communism:

1st argument‑The temporal order exerts a profound formative ‑ or deforma­tive ‑ action over the mentalities of peoples and the souls of individuals. The Church cannot, therefore, accept a freedom which would involve Her being silent about the errors of the Communist regime, thus creating the impression among the people that She does not condemn them.

2nd argument ‑ By renouncing the teaching of the precepts of the Decalogue which are the basis of private property (7th and 10th Commandments), the Church would present a disfigured image of God Himself. Such a condition would be gravely prejudicial to the love of God, the practice of justice, and the full develop­ment of the faculties of man, and, as a consequence, to his sanctification.

3rd argument ‑ The Church cannot accept Communism as a "fait accompli" and a lesser evil.