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| | Caritas - Papal Office - January 2003 |
 | | Anyone acquainted with the practice of the Church and the Bulla, “Unam Sanctam,” by Pope Boniface VIII, knows that there are two orders, the spiritual order and the civil order: the first is God’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, and the second is the various civil states all over the world. |
 | | We quote from Unam Sanctam Denzinger #469 as follows: “And we are taught by evangelical words that in this power of his are two swords, namely, spiritual and temporal…; Therefore, each is in the power of the Church, that is a spiritual and a material sword. |
 | | In the above quotation from Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII clearly declares that the state exists for the Church, and not to tax it out of existence. |
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