Criticism of Catholic Actions in History
This section, organized chronologically, covers some of the historical actions for which the Western church and the Catholic Church, have been criticised.
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“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
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“It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.”
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“They are actions that a man might play,
But I have that within which passes show,
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