The Popes usually do not mince words; they are quite outspoken, and their language is often forceful. Even Pius XII, whose real thinking had sometimes to be sought between the lines (as in his 1944 Christmas allocution), was distinctly blunt at times (as in "Summi Pontificatus" and "Humani Generis"). When the Popes denounce an error, they do so in no ambiguous terms, witness Pius XI: "It is utterly untrue to say ..." (para. 18 above), and Gregory XVI: "It is insanity to believe ..." (para. 20 above).
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