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title: 'Reply to Bishop Spalding on Catholicism and Apaism'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Clement Read Vaughan'
date: 1895-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'Roman Catholic History'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Matthew 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/vaughan-1895-reply-to-bishop-spalding-on-catholicism-and-apaism
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# Reply to Bishop Spalding on Catholicism and Apaism

A Union Seminary critique arguing Bishop Spalding misses the point: papal infallibility (Vatican 1870) and historic papal bulls/encyclicals threaten American civil liberty and church–state separation.

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