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There is no evidence that Abraham Lincoln, either as a private citizen or as US president opposed Catholicism. In the 1858 debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, whose second wife was a Catholic, the Illinois Republican Party opposed Catholicism . This gave radicals another reason to oppose Douglas. As US president Lincoln did help to allow a gathering in Washington DC raise funds for a Catholic church. The expert answer of Donna Halper saw my error about Douglas himself and rightly corrected it.

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