Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. (Pope Benedict XVI)

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI

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