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public authority, shall be punished with imprisonment from eight days to three months and a fine from twenty-six francs to five hundred francs. If the pastoral instruction, speech, or writing contains a direct incitement to disobedience to laws or other acts of public authority, or if it tends to stir up or arm one part of the citizens against others, the minister of religion who has published, spoken, or read it, shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to two years, if the incitement has not resulted in any effect, and with imprisonment from six months to three years, if it has led to disobedience, except that which has degenerated into sedition or revolt. The guilty party shall also be fined from one hundred francs to one thousand francs.
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The Pulpit Law should be seen in the context of the long-term relationship between the Church and State. Since the 1840s and the tenure of Bishop
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Ministers of religions who, in speeches delivered or in writings read, in the exercise of their ministry, and in public assembly, or by a written document containing pastoral instructions in any form whatsoever, directly attack the
Government, a law, a grand-ducal royal decree, or any other act of
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Luxembourg, at least until the Second World War, and in many ways still to the present day.
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