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1 1 | separated the Church from the State, were but so many steps
2 3 | 3. That the State must be separated from the
3 3 | on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious
4 3 | limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public
5 3 | agreement between Church and State, and the result will be
6 3 | separation of Church and State. Our illustrious predecessor,
7 4 | true that any Christian State does something eminently
8 5 | the same fidelity from the State. This is a truth which no
9 5 | can deny. Yet today the State, by its sole authority,
10 6 | the manner in which the State has effected this abrogation.
11 7 | energetically. When the State broke the links of the Concordat,
12 7 | bitter grief to Us to see the State thus encroach on matters
13 7 | more from the fact that the State, dead to all sense of equity
14 8 | property the Council of State is the only competent tribunal.
15 8 | therefore placed in such a state of dependence on the civil
16 9 | attributes to the Council of State supreme jurisdiction over
17 9 | churches in order to invest the State with this function; when
18 9 | essence of religion) that the State injures the Church, but
19 9 | Thus, for instance, the State has not been satisfied with
20 10| proclaims as property of the State, Departments or Communes
21 11| Worship, exonerates the State from the obligation of providing
22 11| obligation assumed by the State to make restitution, at
23 12| Especially in the present state of Europe, the maintenance
24 13| separation of Church and State, as deeply unjust to God
25 14| to the interests of the State. God grant those who are
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