The "subversive action" undermining each sphere is "identical," he stated, "as are the inspiring principles that move them and the goals they set." He argued it is "essential" for Catholics "to understand that the Second Vatican Council and the Novus Ordo were to the Church what the Revolution and the Declaration of Human Rights were to civil societies, because at the root of both lies the poisonous germ of Revolution, that is, of the subversion of the natural order that God established for man and human societies."