Thanks for the additional information!
How unfortunate that this celebrated friendship cooled in this way. How much sadder that it was in part the schism of faith that lay behind much of the frost.
"Papist" is a lable loaded with the connotations of historic animosity. While I have my own disagreements with Catholic doctrine and practice, I hope never to discuss those differences in an offensive manner. How often is it the case that men make so much of their differences of belief that they consider these more important than the greatest commandments, to love God with all our being and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
It seems that one man had a life-long habit of somewhat self-centered arrogance, and the other found it hard to forgive, or at least to endure.
Pride. It is something that despite such differences, they were not "unfriends."
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