![If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-the-test-of-truth-lay-in-a-show-of-hands-or-a-counting-of-heads-the-system-of.jpg)
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Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family. Denis McDonough
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I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word. Denis Leary
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