The Work poses new problems

The very special characteristics of this vocation of ours entail raising many theological, ascetical and canonical problems and finding the right solutions to them, expressed in the right terms. That will necessarily take time and effort, partly because many people, even people with good will and expertise in the various forms of apostolate and the life of the Church, will be slow to understand us, as I have told you before.

And demands new solutions

But above all it is because this social and apostolic phenomenon that God has set up in the heart of the Church raises problems that are very different, including in the way they are posed, from the problems connected with the religious state. And even when it may seem, to people who do not understand our path, that some questions are common to us and to religious, the solutions are necessarily going to be different.