Historical science as part of your curriculum, should not be limited to critical or purely apologetic problems, whatever their importance, but should rather demonstrate the activities of the Church: what she has done and suffered; what methods she applied to her mandate and with what success; how she exercised charity; what dangers she has to face; what relations between Church and State are desirable and otherwise; what concessions the Church cannot or can make to political powers and it what circumstances. This demands deliberate judgment on the conditions of the Church, animated by sincere love. This is what lectures on ecclesiastical history should offer and develop for students.