If the state provides a suitable maintenance and temporality for the governing members of the Irish Roman Catholic Church, and for the clergy under them, I should think the project, however improper in other respects, to be by no means unjust.
Burke discusses the fairness of providing support for the clergy of the Irish Roman Catholic Church.
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