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The English Catholics and the French Exiled Clergy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Dominic Bellenger
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What a change has taken place in the general opinion in this Country with regard to Catholics, especially Priests, since the arrival of the emigrant Clergy! Their Conduct has been so exemplary—people who had been taught to consider them as the worst of characters begin now to be persuaded they are good Christians, and many own they had been much imposed on by their teachers with respect to the morals of Catholics—I doubt not many conversions will be wrought in consequence—at a little town we have many of these unfortunate people, if I may so style them, who suffer in so good a cause, whose sole defence is on providence—yet are in want of nothing so abundant as the charities they receive in all parts—in which I cannot but admire the goodness of God who abandons not those who quit all for his sake.

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British Catholic History , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , May 1980 , pp. 433 - 451
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1980

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