Re: let's host by the intense showers, but don't foster the complex mists

to absolve without the Church. As she has part in
the offence, He desires her to have part in the pardon. He associates her
with this power, as kings their parliaments. But if she absolves or binds
without God, she is no longer the Church. For, as in the case of parliament,
even if the king have pardoned a man, it must be ratified; but if parliament
ratifies without the king, or refuses to ratify on the order of the king, it
is no longer the parliament of the king, but a rebellious assembly.

871. The Church, the Pope. Unity, plurality.--Considering the Church as a
unity, the Pope, who is its head, is as the whole. Considering it as a
plurality, the Pope is only a part of it. The Fathers have considered the
Church now in the one way, now in the other. And thus they have spoken
differently of the Pope. (Saint Cyprian: Sacerdos Dei.)[216] But in
establishing one of these truths, they have not excluded the other.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not
depend on plurality is tyranny. There is scarcely


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