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1 1 | which the Founder of the Church has left in heritage to
2 2 | reason why the Fathers of the Church confidently asserted that
3 3 | flourishing in the garden of the Church. When the Acts of the Apostles5
4 3 | office they fulfilled in the Church increased notably, as We
5 4 | Further, the Fathers of the Church, such as Cyprian, Athanasius,
6 4 | centuries by the Doctors of the Church and the masters of asceticism,
7 5 | from the beginning of the Church until our time have offered
8 5 | what the Fathers of the Church preached about the glory
9 6 | also required by the Latin Church of clerics in major orders10
10 8 | manner declare and uphold the Church's teaching on the sublime
11 9 | should be noted that the Church has taken what is capital
12 12| Fathers and Doctors of the Church have clearly taught, that
13 16| the way the Fathers of the Church have always interpreted
14 16| very earliest days of the Church they have considered virginity
15 17| Moreover the Fathers of the Church considered this obligation
16 17| writes that the Catholic Church has been accustomed to call
17 17| was very like the rite the Church uses in our own day in the
18 18| and resolutions which the Church herself requires of virgins
19 22| temporal cares, that the Latin Church demands of her sacred ministers
20 22| ministers of the Oriental Church to the same degree, nevertheless
21 24| according to the teaching of the Church, holy virginity surpasses
22 26| the first centuries of the Church up to our own day, have
23 28| who are the honor of the Church by the lofty sanctity of
24 30| virginity of their mother, the Church and the sanctity of her
25 31| of the union between the Church and her divine Spouse. For
26 31| They are the flower of the Church, the beauty and ornament
27 31| fecundity of our mother, the Church, finds expression and she
28 32| Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Finally, We and Our Predecessors
29 32| traditional doctrine of the Church, the danger they constitute,
30 33| common sense, which the Church always holds in esteem,
31 40| 40. For this reason the Church has most wisely held that
32 41| upon their minds that the Church today has a greater need
33 43| much for the good of the Church; indeed, when in circumstances
34 44| 44. From the Church's teaching on the excellence
35 46| publicly honored by the Church, and who were faithful spouses
36 54| Fathers90 and Doctors91 of the Church teach, that we can more
37 56| contact with the world, the Church has promulgated appropriate
38 67| difficulties with which the Church must contend today, the
39 68| current necessities of the Church, may soon go forth to cultivate
40 71| consecrated virgins of the early Church who with courageous and
41 72| countries and in the universal Church; may they be most certain
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