"It is for the Catholic apologist to prove in detail that, however deep and far-reaching the significance attributed by the Evangelists to the facts which they relate, those facts cannot simply be resolved into myth and legend. Nature also is a parable; but it is real."
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William Francis Barry
William Francis Barry (21 April 1849 – 15 December 1930) was a Catholic priest.
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