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(Greek: anti, against; nomos, law)

In his classic analysis of the historical significance of the Catholic Church, Charles Stanton Devas enumerates and explains away ten of its apparent contradictions or inconsistencies: The Church

• appears in opposition to intellectual civilization and yet to foster it
• appears in opposition to material civilization and yet to foster it
• represents a religion of sorrow. and yet of gladness; teaches a morality which is austere and yet joyful
• appears the opponent and yet the support of the State; its rival and yet its ally
• upholds the equality of men and yet the inequality of property and power
• is full of scandals and yet all holy; proclaims a law at once difficult and yet easy
• upholds and yet opposes religious freedom and liberty of conscience
• is one and yet Christendom has ever been divided
• is ever the same and yet ever changing
• is ever being defeated and yet ever victorious.