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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
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Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
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Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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