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1 1 | The Catholic Church, that imperishable handiwork
2 1 | And, indeed, wherever the Church has set her foot she has
3 2 | levelled against her, that the Church is opposed to the rightful
4 2 | approved by the Catholic Church. Nay, in these latter days
5 7 | which He committed to His Church to protect and to propagate.~
6 8 | society which is called the Church, and to it He handed over
7 8 | abundantly,"7 so also has the Church for its aim and end the
8 10 | as the end at which the Church aims is by far the noblest
9 11 | not hear them, tell the Church."13 And again: "In readiness
10 11 | destruction."15 Hence, it is the Church, and not the State, that
11 11 | to heaven. It is to the Church that God has assigned the
12 12 | truckles to the State, the Church, has never ceased to claim
13 12 | the holy Fathers of the Church were always careful to maintain
14 12 | been wont to treat with the Church as with a supreme and legitimate
15 12 | providence that this power of the Church was provided with a civil
16 14 | power and judgment of the Church. Whatever is to be ranged
17 15 | matter. At such times the Church gives signal proof of her
18 20 | he addresses the Catholic Church in the following words: "
19 21 | protection of magistrates; and Church and State were happily united
20 22 | teaching, and counsels of the Church, and had this submission
21 22 | world is well ruled, and the Church flourishes, and brings forth
22 27 | unrightful a position the Church is driven. For, when the
23 27 | paid to the laws of the Church, and she who, by the order
24 27 | most sacred decrees of the Church. They claim jurisdiction
25 27 | clergy, contending that the Church cannot possess property.
26 27 | Lastly, they treat the Church with such arrogance that,
27 27 | government. If in any State the Church retains her own agreement
28 27 | that matters affecting the Church must be separated from those
29 28 | unchecked control. And as the Church, unable to abandon her chiefest
30 29 | forbid the action of the Church altogether, or to keep her
31 29 | freedom of the Catholic Church, and to curtail her ever
32 32 | of virtue. To exclude the Church, founded by God Himself,
33 32 | of life and morals. The Church of Christ is the true and
34 33 | 33. To wish the Church to be subject to the civil
35 33 | many benefits which the Church, if free to act, would confer
36 34 | question of the separation of Church and State the same Pontiff
37 34 | those who desire that the Church be separated from the State,
38 34(22)| few of them: Prop. 19. The Church is not a true, perfect,
39 34(22)| what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which
40 34(22)| unlimited. Prop. 55. The Church must be separated from the
41 34(22)| Stare and the State from the Church. Prop. 79. It is unture
42 35 | to be understood that the Church no less than the State itself
43 35 | to act as to compel the Church to become subservient or
44 36 | teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the constitution
45 36 | any one should accuse the Church of being wanting in gentleness
46 36 | and lawful liberty. The Church, indeed, deems it unlawful
47 36 | State. And, in fact, the Church is wont to take earnest
48 37 | 37. In the same way the Church cannot approve of that liberty
49 38 | worthy of human beings, the Church approves most highly and
50 38 | bear witness, the Catholic Church has always been the originator,
51 39 | when it is said that the Church is hostile to modern political
52 39 | necessarily proceed from God, the Church recognizes in all truth
53 39 | joyfully welcomed by the Church. She will always encourage
54 39 | anything not known before, the Church makes no opposition. She
55 43 | moreover, are bound to love the Church as their common mother,
56 44 | badly disposed toward the Church, and those who are willing
57 46 | most loving children of the Church, to reject without swerving
58 46 | Spirit has placed to rule the Church of God.27 The defense of
59 46 | doctrines taught by the Church all shall be of one mind
60 47 | privately the authority of the Church, but publicly rejecting
61 49 | will become helpers to the Church in preserving and propagating
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