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National Conscience and the Vatican Debates in England
The piece argues that English public opinion, not the Pope, drives the Vatican Decrees controversy. It praises Gladstone and Disraeli as emblematic of national conscience, traces liberal ecclesiastical policy from 1868, and notes shifts toward disestablishment and religious freedom within a still strengthing state church.
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Vatican
Ingland
England
Disraeli
Mr. Gladstone
Philip
Gladstone
Macaulay