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Audran, Father Ernest, Jeffersonville, Indiana, to James Alphonsus McMaster, New York, New York, 1870 March 14

 Item
Identifier: CMMA I-1-n

Scope and Contents

Father Audran encloses a clipping from the Louisville Courier-Journal of March 11. It wuotes two letters from the Catholic Telegraph, which he feels are scandalous. He feels that the author should be censured, even if he be the Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati. Audran encloses a protest which he had planned on sending to both McMaster and the Telegraph, but feels that the Telegraph would probably not insert it at any rate. He gives McMaster permission to use it. The enclosed note merely repeats that Audran feels that the author used improper language and should be censured, and he feels that it is his duty to protest. P.S. Audran suggests that a subscription be started among the priests to defray the expenses of the Council which would give to the priests of this country a chance to state their faith and their desires in regard to the settlement of the question of the infallibility of the Pope. He points out that the priests in France have done this through the paper "Univers ", and that McMaster's paper could do the same. Audran sends ten dollars, and asks to head the subscription list, with the following sentiment: "a priest who always believed firmly in the Infallibility of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, and who views an authoritative definition of it as the remedy to the chief difficulties against which the Church has had to contend since the condemnation of Protestantism by the Council of Trent." :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1870 March 14

Language of Materials

English.

Repository Details

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