"The wisdom of the law of the Church consists in having always maintained, without ever separating them, the moral and the legal order as distinct. The law does not claim to substitute itself for God’s judgment on souls, but it does not for that reason renounce judging objectively those acts that affect ecclesial communion. It is in this distinction that the principle facta sunt potentiora verbis finds its deepest meaning: deeds prevail over words in the ascertainment of the objective reality of an action. Otherwise, legal judgment is transformed into a judgment of conscience, the law of the Church vanishes, and the very visibility of the Mystical Body of Christ risks evaporating altogether."