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⁶ Ibid., 127.

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¹⁰ Numquam duo, semper tres, “Never two, always three”: a traditional Latin motto warning youngsters not to be alone with another person, in order to prevent the development of “particular friendships.”

¹¹ See http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-spiritual-exercises/.

¹² See, e.g., Todd Walatka, “The Opening of the Political: Grounding Political Action in Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theodramatic Christology through an Engagement with the Christology of Jon Sobrino” (PhD diss., University of Notre Dame, 2011).

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