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A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk

John Henry Newman

Newman's reply of 1875 to Gladstone's pamphlet claiming that the Vatican Council of 1870 made Catholics bad citizens. He treats the ancient Church and the papal Church, divided allegiance, the Encyclical and Syllabus of Pius IX, and the Vatican definition of infallibility, and gives the passage on conscience as the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. With the Postscript replying to critics.

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Source: 11 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's own notes are kept as footnotes. Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.