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Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nineteenth century England was notoriously intolerant of the Catholic Church within its borders. Newman delivered these addresses to a fraternal group of Catholic priests and professors advising them how to remain faithful to their vows within an established Protestant culture. Newman's intention is to point out the logical fallacies undergirding the Protestant prejudices of Rome. He carefully...

fallacies, put out against us? why Maria Monk, and Jeffreys, and Teodore, and Achilli? Allowing, then, as I do, the importance of the phenomenon which I have been mentioning, feeling most fully that it requires careful consideration, granting that we may be fairly asked what we have to say to it—that we ought to account for its existence, nevertheless I do not think it is so decisive an argument, as its own upholders would make it, else it ought to have altogether superseded all others. In truth,
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