Since the beginning of time," the camerlegno said, "this church has fought the enemies of God.

The ground on which the church fights the battle will be crucial.

It is therefore easy to see why the churches have always fought science and persecuted its devotees.

No organized opposition to loosening the rules has emerged, but in the past some churches have fought to hold the line.

They justified the violence by revising history and declaring that the church had been actively fighting against them.

By the 1990s, the church was fighting the following controversies which made them look like a sect in public.

In spite of what I have said the American churches fought a rear guard action for four hundred years.

"THE church fights the enemies of yesterday and the friends of tomorrow."

The church has long opposed suicide, and has fought against assisted suicide.

With the children and grandchildren of European immigrants, the church fought what turned out to be a losing battle against the secular mind-set.