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Fr. Vincent Maumus, OP: "The question which is posed is therefore this one: in the face of such profound changes in the relationship of the Church with civil society, what must be the attitude of Catholics with regard to modern societies?"
"Must they curse and attempt to go back to the past? must they claim that the life of the Church is impossible in a milieu which refuses it a position and privileges which it has enjoyed for so long and which are absolutely necessary to it?"
"This would make its existence depend on certain changing circumstances of time and of place, like all that is human, and the Church, which has the promise of immortality, knows very well that it can live in all times and in all countries."
"To think that the Church is condemned henceforth to a precarious and shaky life because she no longer has the exclusive support of the secular power, is to doubt the words of Christ and of the power of the Cross; no Catholic would want to merit the reproach:
'O man of little faith why did you doubt me?'" - (1898)
