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With their infallible Church, Catholics do not need God at all.

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They do. In order to live up to their religion, Catholics need God’s grace and help individually all along the line. Their infallible Church teaches them with certainty what they must believe and do, but even this infallibility of the Church would be a farce without God. She is infallible because, and only because, God preserves her from error in her official teaching. God, therefore, becomes more necessary than ever.

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