"What is the remedy at such a juncture?"
"To organize, outside of the papacy, of the college of cardinals, of the episcopacy, of the regular clergy and of the religious Orders, a society to whose members it shall be strictly forbidden ever to be elected Pope, or to accept any Catholic office, however high or however low the office may be. Thus this society will ever preserve its independence of action for or against the Church, free to oppose or uphold its Chief."
"What shall be the organization of that redoubtable society?"
"A General, elected by its own members, shall have sovereign direction over it."
"What pledge are its members to take towards him?"
"Dumb, blind and servile obedience."
"What are they to be in his hands?"
"That which we are in yours, O, master! Instruments as docile as the cane in the hand of the man who leans upon it."
"What will be the theater of the society's work?"
"The whole world."