James Andrew Corcoran

James Andrew Corcoran (March 31, 1820 in Charleston, South Carolina – July 16, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the editor of the United States Catholic Miscellany, the first distinctively Catholic literary periodical published in the United States^[1] and the theologian for the bishops of the United States in the First Vatican Council.^[1] He authored "the Spalding formula", an attempted compromise during the First Vatican Council on the doctrine of papal infallibility.^[1] At the age of 14 he was sent to the College of Propaganda, Rome, where was ordained a priest on 21 December 1842. He was the first person native to the Carolinas who received priestly orders. He remained a year longer in Rome to complete his studies and was made doctor in sacred theology.