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“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”
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“The crozier was used to good effect to stifle debate, close down a necessary discourse, and bully a community group into accepting an unwelcome diktat from a blinkered hierarchy.”
In contrast Pope Francis speaking in July;
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