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It is Better for Sun and Moon to Drop from Heaven
by David Mills | Sep 11, 2020 | Newman Today | 0
It’s one of Newman’s most notorious lines, and a claim I for one wish were untrue:”The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony
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