"The first reason for reprinting this work is a moral one — namely, that the readers may see, from so illustrious an example, that loss of faith comes from loss of morals. The second reason is that non-Catholics, those "other sheep which are not of this fold," may return to the rich, green pastures which they left four hundred years ago, and which are still as rich, as green, because still watered by the perennial streams of the seven sacraments, just as in the days of Henry."
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Defence of the Seven Sacraments (1908)
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Louis O'Donovan
Louis O'Donovan (July 24, 1872 – October 9, 1949) was an American Catholic priest.
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