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Excerpt from “Memoirs to Serve for the Future, An Ecclesiastical Future, “Memoirs to Serve for the Excerpt from 20. Reflect well, my dear friend, upon what I have laid before church without imposing laws upon minds and souls, as it would would it as souls, and minds upon laws imposing without church be to form a state without imposing them Thisupon bodies. is among body an been ecclesiastical has never so there true, that or ourselves, among any other people, which has not had some to us obliges which that blame therefore Why souls. bind to law of and decision doctrine the our mind to submit Church? the * History of the Diocese of Boston” pages 46-49, (U.S. Catholic Historical 1978). Yonkers, Society, equally equally be saved? 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