preaching that the Church derives its power from the laity. The pontiff stepped in and excommunicated McGlynn in July 1887.
1891, George's reform movement had lost steam, and McGlynn was out of the news. Pope Leo restored McGlynn to the priesthood in 1892 -without consulting Corrigan. Dumfounded, the archbishop at first refused to receive McGlynn back into the diocese but subsequently decided to curry favor with the pope. He became a fervent defender of papal infallibility, then being questioned...