"For while the state is a power to be organized, and an organizing power, if the Church sets itself on the same plane it ceases to be authentically the Church.
Now as the Lord never leaves his Church even when it is guilty of betrayal, he steadily dismantles the organisms which are carefully set up in the politico-juridical, sociological, or administrative sphere. This means that a system of Church and state can never succeed. The relation has thus to be thought of dynamically as the encounter between an organized, institutional, and organizing power with a power of a very different order which has no pretensions to the exercise of political power or division of human powers but which unceasingly represents another thing or rather another person----one that is fundamentally other and that belongs to a different sphere."
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