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Footnotes
- The latest figures cover up until the end of 2023
- Michael Davies, Pope John’s Council, (Kansas City, Angelus Press, 2007), 461.
- Many sources misattribute Louis VIII’s actions to his grandfather Louis VII, who died in 1180, forty-six years previously.
- Comité de Escucha, Síntesis narrativa: La escucha en la 1era. Asamblea Eclesial para América Latina y el Caribe—CELAM—Voces del Pueblo de Dios, Sept. 21, 2021, p. 189, https://diocesisdeirapuato.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sintesis-Narrativa-FINAL-1-1.pdf. [Trans.: As the references to this document are numerous, normal citations will be omitted from now on, and the respective page numbers shown in parentheses after each quote.]
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