"Though the Altar should nourish its ministers, the tithes of those who fail to serve that Altar are the property of the poor."
— Pasquale Paoli

January 1, 1970

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Statement after the Pope deprived Corsican bishops of their sees and left them vacant (c. 1760), quoted in Peter Adam Thrasher, Pasquale Paoli: An Enlightened Hero, 1725–1807 (1970), p. 71