"The controversial importance of this subject in more recent times is, of course, obvious. The Catholics answered the accusation of Protestant writers, that their special doctrines could not be found in the writings of the early Fathers, by showing the existence of this practice of reserve. If it was forbidden to speak or write publicly of these doctrines, silence was completely accounted for."
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Arthur Stapylton Barnes
1861 – 1936
Arthur Stapylton Barnes (31 May 1861 – 1936) was a Catholic priest.
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