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> [The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-byrne/the-catholic-church-is-an-innately-conservative-rock-they-call/)

[Gabriel Byrne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-byrne/)

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> [“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can be navigated if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mea-mcmahon/it-is-too-easy-to-call-the-church-political-the-nature-of-fallen/)

[Mea McMahon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mea-mcmahon/)

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