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HOUG/42/165
Title
Letter from unidentified correspondent to Lord Houghton, perhaps incomplete copy
Date(s)
- 24 Dec. 1873 (Creation)
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1 sheet.
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St. Catherine's Villa, St. Leonard's on Sea. - Prussia has merely resumed state-rights over Roman Catholic priesthood, as exercised by most Catholic countries; historical background given; Bismarck's way clear after 1871; a pity the clergy submitted to the Vaticanum; Prussia's course is better than disestablishment; little support in England, though writer's view prevails in many other countries; Roman indoctrination; priests should be educated in Germany. No signature.