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State Power is Neither Holy Nor Angelic

On news that the FBI has not only been spying on and infiltrating Catholic parishes, but lying about it: When I studied to be a priest/religious as a Dominican, we were assigned to read through the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers; many of the notions and clauses date back all the way to the…
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When Your Church IS the State

The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult to access, and has…
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