Worthy of the Gospel of Christ: A History of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Diocese and Catholic Life in Northern Indiana (review)

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rough characters should ever be celebrated in the Church, Stanton will get an octave added to it” (p. 362). Seelos also writes how he “could never see how the poor Irishmen rushed with such an eagerness into that bloody war” since the northern abolitionists, whom he saw as ultimately responsible for what was in his view a preventable war, “will reward them by persecuting their religion and faith. . .” (p. 358).