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John Morley: “For the first time in my life, I shall now be obliged to talk about popery; for it would be a scandal to call the…”

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For the first time in my life, I shall now be obliged to talk about popery; for it would be a scandal to call the religion they are manufacturing at Rome by the same name as that of Pascal, or of Bossuet, or of Ganganelli.
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John Morley

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Morley critiques the use of the term 'popery' in relation to the Catholic Church's evolving identity.

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