| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 46021 |
| QUOTATION: | Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927), German ecclesiastic, cardinal. Independent (London, June 27, 1990). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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