I think that when a man becomes a bishop he doesn't cease to be a citizen and as a citizen every responsible man has right make up his own mind and his own conscience and to follow it and I think also that wise people would believe that everybody being free to to ventilate his own view, whether they like them or not, well, that's the real freedom of democracy.
Irish-born Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne 1917-1963, Irish nationalist, influential in Australian politics
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