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title: 'The Old Catholic Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Philip Schaff'
date: 1873-12-18
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'Transcendentalism'
- 'Social Issues'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 4'
- 'Romans 8'
- 'Matthew 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/schaff-1873-the-old-catholic-church
---

# The Old Catholic Church

Excerpt from Louisa M. Alcott's 'Transcendental Wild Oats' — a satirical fiction about a 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community (Fruitlands), its austerity, hardships, and failure.

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