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• “Hence St. Thomas (II-II, Q. lxxxi, a. 1) defines religion as "virtus per quam homines Deo debitum cultum et reverentiam exhibent" (the virtue which prompts man to render to God the worship and reverence that is His by right).”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “I believed that the question was existential, almost religious, and it concerned how we should live in the world, and how we should relate to God and to each other, and I grew so solemn and earnest on the subject that Mr. Mulhern, the English teacher, suggested I go and see a priest who had come back from America and who worked only with the seminarians.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

• “Other symbolic details included in Nativities are angels singing, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will” usually written in Latin on banners surrounding them.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art

• “Congregation of Indulgences, 18 December 1885, has bestowed a special blessing on the so-called "heroic act" in virtue of which "a member of the Church militant ofters to God for the souls in purgatory all the satisfactory works which he will perform during his lifetime, and also all the suffrages which may accrue to him after his death”

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• “Among the Anglo-Saxons and the Irish, as manifested by their penitential books, the fundamental idea was reparation in proportion to the number and gravity of the sins, as it were a weregild paid to God and the Church.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Though the term Providence is applied to God only three times in”

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• “Tithes belonged to God as the real owner of the land, and hence could not be made the subject of vows.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The term promise in Holy Writ both in its nominal and verbal form embraces not only promises made by man to his fellowman, and by man to God in the form of vows (e.g. Deut., xxiii, 21-3), but also God's promises to man.”

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• “I would to God that one of the most atrocious in each state was hung in gibbets upon a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Hamen.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Polytheism vitiates religion, in so far as it confounds the one true God with a number of fictitious beings, and distributes among these the reverent service that belongs to God alone.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

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