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title: "3 Catholic Understanding Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-claiborne/the-catholic-understanding-has-been-that-the-death-penalty-has-been/)

[Shane Claiborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-claiborne/)

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> [“For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-rahner/for-a-catholic-understanding-of-the-faith-there-is-no-reason-why-the/)

[Karl Rahner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-rahner/)

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> [A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-nichols/a-catholic-understanding-of-priesthood-is-so-strongly-rooted-in-the/)

[Vincent Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-nichols/)

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