The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. (Jacques Maritain)

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Jacques Maritain

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