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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…

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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of…
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations…
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher…
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life…
It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For…
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every…
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back…
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved…

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