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The Constantinian heathenism of the Church: Ratzinger and the crisis of our time

February 4, 2021 Larry Chapp 72

“The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and increasingly so: no longer, as it once was, a church made […]

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