Catholic War Council

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    “That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
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    “He all their ammunition
    And feats of war defeats
    With plain heroic magnitude of mind
    And celestial vigour armed;”
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    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
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