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- 25 February 1973 (Creation)
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1 side; typescript; headed
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1980: writing to Bishop Clark
Basil Butler was a convert to Roman Catholicism from Church of England.
He was a Roman Catholic priest, the 7th Abbot of Downside Abbey, one-time Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster, an internationally respected scripture scholar, a consistent defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew, and the pre-eminent English-speaking Council Father at the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).
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pre-2018: ADW
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RCDEA Archive
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Bp Clark's pamphlet on the Virgin Birth - thoroughly scholarly and enlightening. Like to see it published. The public's general obsession with sex means that there might be unfortunate effects with the treatment of "clauso utero" and "intactum hymen". Grateful for the personal help as after his conversion he was led to believe that unless he accepted the clauso utero he should have "made shipwreck of the faith".
BP Clark's sermon on TV this morning will have done a lot of good.
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EABC
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203x255mm
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- Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002) (Subject)