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“ Many times I have spoken with you in my homilies about a lie which insidiously takes shape in the minds of human beings, a lie that multiplies sins and diminishes the good deeds that each of us ought to practice as citizens. This lie [we tell ourselves] is to think that we possess as owners and lords those things given to us for our use in life. Because we hold on tightly to this lie, we fight violently, make war, press charges, [and] go to whatever extreme to cling to the material things as if they were essential goods. ”