The canonical tradition clearly shows that clerical celibacy has never been uniformly observed and that violations were often widespread and not buried in secrecy. The church’s own legal records demonstrate that violations of the celibacy
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“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.”
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“Do not love your country. Love your God-given freedoms. Don’t fight for a government, but rather fight against anyone who would threaten your liberty, and your right to be alive. Government does not exist to be served, but to serve, and to be a physical manifestation of common ideals. And to protect those ideals through the forceful hand of the people that espouse them.”
― Extinction
― Extinction
“But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
― Refugees
― Refugees
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