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JP II – Called to love - 1

A Portugese lesson

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

As Hilaire Belloc said, by way of proving the divine origin of the Church: “Any purely human institution run by such a group of knaves, fools, and cutthroats wouldn’t have lasted a fortnight.”

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