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- 14 March 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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"... it is not strictly necessary for Our Lord to be born of a virgin. I am not sure that St Thomas doesn't make the point."
Read Laurentin before you finish the pamphlet.
manuscript ps: "I have now read your paper on Argument [? Agreement] in Faith. It is excellent and should have wider circulation. Many thanks."
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EABC
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203x253mm
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- Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002) (Subject)