"I think that when a man becomes a bishop he doesn't cease to be a citizen and as a citizen every responsible man has right make up his own mind and his own conscience and to follow it and I think also that wise people would believe that everybody being free to to ventilate his own view, whether they like them or not, well, that's the real freedom of democracy."
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Daniel Mannix
Daniel Mannix (4 March 1864 – 6 November 1963) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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