"The history of the Church is full of examples, to prove that no austerity of life, no detachment from worldly goods, is a safeguard against spiritual pride."
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The JesuitsThe American Catholic Quarterly Review (1876)
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James Andrew Corcoran
James Andrew Corcoran (March 31, 1820 – July 16, 1889) was an American Catholic who was the editor of the United States Catholic Miscellany, the first distinctively Catholic literary periodical published in the United States> and the theologian for the bishops of the United States in the First Vatican Council.
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