"All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly ...

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
~ Pope Benedict XVI ~












God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justic...
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