“I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.”

— John Henry Newman

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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English cleric and cardinal 1801–1890

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