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Now The Ordinary Protestant, Jew Or Secularist Has A Stereotype About Catholicism. It Consists Of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-american Catholicism And, Let Us Say, A Catholicism Of O'connor's "great Hurrah." Now There Are Types Of Catholicism Like That But This Doesn't - This Doesn't Do Justice To The Genuine Relation That Catholicism Has Had To Democratic Society.

-Reinhold Niebuhr

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Now The Ordinary Protestant, Jew Or Secularist

Reinhold Niebuhr

Now The Ordinary Protestant, Jew Or Secularist Has A Stereotype About Catholicism. It Consists Of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-american Catholicism And, Let Us Say, A Catholicism Of O'connor's "great Hurrah." Now There Are Types Of Catholicism Like That But This Doesn't - This Doesn't Do Justice To The Genuine Relation That Catholicism Has Had To Democratic Society.

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