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...what we were raised The precariousness of such a "dialogue" with was the titillating fact that Father is demonstrated by the tone of the reac- Feeny of Boston had been excommunitions (much more so than by the argu- cated for a literal interpretation of that Cbeistiaas & Jews ments) of the Jewish respondents to my precise phrase...
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...Her our church's history especially - to bear needed as urgently in today's church as somewhat Teilhardian approach is to this in mind and put it into practice, so the gift of presiding, proclaiming the cosmology what Rupert Sheldrake's A that our children, twenty years from Word, and caring for the sick and prisonNew Science of Life (J.B...
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...Despite this fact, it remains in classical literature by the fate of Soc- Israeli authorities precludes any claim of true that many Catholics were never rates, or by Dostoyevski's tale of the moral superiority...
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