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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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28.5.06


"Our people were used and abused
as a tool of their mania for destruction and domination"

killed by his countrymen:
After passing beneath the iron arch emblazoned with the lie "work brings freedom", the man who was unwillingly enrolled into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi army said he bowed before the victims as "a son of the German people".
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"In a place like this, words fail. There is only a stupefied silence and a cry to God."
Daniel McLaughlin in Auschwitz/Guardian UK 29.May.06
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Instances might be multiplied, but these are sufficient to show that the early Church regarded the Pope as the infallible voice of God on earth in matters of religion.
The Pope, like the rest of us, is human.
Papal Infallibility
Things Catholics Are Asked About
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"I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful"
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to confirm a doctrine "preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents," which "pertains to the Church's divine consitution itself"
Letter of October 28, 1995
Regarding the [Pope John Paul II's] SCDF Responsum on Ordinatio Sacerdotalis

by His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Prefect, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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God: Very clear on the ordination of women into the priesthood.
Vague as can be on the Holocaust.

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