Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Wh…

Pope Benedict XVI
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Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. ✨ Pope Benedict XVI (2004). Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions, p.116, Ignatius Press
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Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. ✨ Pope Benedict XVI (2004). Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions, p.116, Ignatius Press

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