[592] called upon to fight not only against the abuse of drinking, alcoholic drinking, but also to introduce special law^as, special techniques, to suppress it, in the moment of rohibition [sic.]. Nothing has more damaged the authority^b of the Church's message than their simple identification of what they had to say, with a special law of the state^c which proved to be, after a certain time, only an immense and unhoped-for gift for all gangs[ters], in this country. [little laughter] So the Church has to state the principles, negatively and positively, but the Church cannot, AS CHURCH, speak about the remedies. And we religious socialists^d were VERY MUCH aware of this. We never said that our analysis of the time, our suggestions of transformation, are identical with the message of Jesus-as- the-Christ^e. But AS CHRISTIANS^f, we dared to fall into error and to make statements daringly, and [to] be judged by history^g itself. And we WERE!