"The power of the State is maintained to be of God, either immediately, or mediately through the will of the people; and the civil government exists side by side with the ecclesiastical government. Each is complete in its own sphere."
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Bernard Nicholas Ward
Bernard Nicholas Ward (4 February 1857 – 21 January 1920) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church.
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