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because it matters what you think. I think the Termistic Institute is part of the growing Dominican Empire in the American Church.

That would be right.

So I thought I'd repay the favour by saying favourable things about a Jesuit.

When people talk about the sovereign authority to impose laws, impose legal obligations,

and to enforce those legal obligations by punishments, especially when you put the law

homes to some of the word sovereign, people nowadays would inevitably think about the state.

State is that sovereign authority that can

make laws and punish you for breaching one. But as Catholics we know that that is

not entirely the case. But in fact more than one kind of potter starts, I mean

called it pottersters for a sovereign coercive authority, a sovereign

authority can impose laws and enforce them by punishments. There is a state, but also there is

the church. And at the hand-up, beginning of the handout, I give a, I think, quite a well-known

passage from the 13th, Immortality Day, which is a statement of the doctrine that there are these two

partisites.

There is a state that governs the civil order and is sovereign over that.

And then there is the church that governs religion on this earth and is sovereign over that.

And each has their own allocated responsibilities

now if you look at the modern code of canon law it breathes this sort of conception of the church

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