Humanly speaking the Church as a whole will never cut a good figure, and her exceptions seem almost like another species. (Ida Friederike Görres)

Humanly speaking the Church as a whole will never cut a good figure, and her exceptions seem almost like another species.

Ida Friederike Görres

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