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“God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .”

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Pope Paul III, born Giuseppe de' Riario, was an Italian Pope of the Roman Catholic Church who served from 1534 to 1549. During his papacy, he promoted the Counter-Reformation and attempted to maintain the authority of the Catholic Church through political means. more

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