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...Reverend Dr. E. Clowes Chorley, Historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meditated on the possibility of the Anglo-Catholics going over to Rome. Wrote he, reporting the congress for the New York Herald Tribune: " 'What are the fundamental difficulties in the way of reunion with Rome?' I asked [a fellow divine]. The answer was: 'There are but two-the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope.' The Catholics of the Episcopal Church are willing to render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility...