5                       If a Communist regime were to offer freedom of worship to the Church on the condition that She keep silent about certain errors of Marxism ‑ especially the denial of private property or of the family ‑ could the Church accept such a proposal? As a condition for obtaining this freedom of worship, could the Church at least agree to recommend to Catholics that they desist from every effort to restore private property and the family, holding the abolition of these institutions to be censurable only in thesis but placidly acceptable in practice by virtue of the conditions imposed by the regime?