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 1 2 |        appearance of hostility to the Republic. For We clung to the hope
 2 3 |         proclaims and enacts that the Republic shall have no religion,
 3 4 |             concerned, the Portuguese Republic severs itself from the Church
 4 6 | administrative under the power of the Republic and in no way depending
 5 6 |               the Church but with the Republic, which claims all power
 6 6 |              rulers of the Portuguese Republic deny any place to the clergy
 7 7 |         people except by leave of the Republic. It is, moreover, forbidden
 8 7 |           without permission from the Republic, to go round in procession,
 9 7 |               testators. In fine, the Republic - and this is harshest and
10 7 |               greatest peril; but the Republic even interferes in the domestic
11 8 |              it is not enough for the Republic, after having despoiled
12 8 |            sacred functions. What the Republic in all this wants is plain;
13 9 |               State in the Portuguese Republic. This law despises God and
14 10|            public proclamation of the Republic is so tormented, are to
15 10|         despoil and oppress, from the Republic, but from the Vicar of Christ.