 James Andrew Corcoran

James Andrew Corcoran (born March 31, 1820, Charleston, South Carolina - d. July 16, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the editor of the "United States Catholic Miscellany", the first distinctively Catholic literary periodical published in the United States and the theologian for the bishops of the United States in the First Vatican Council.He authored "the Spalding formula", an attempted compromise during the First Vatican Council on the doctrine of papal infallibility.At the age of 14 he was sent to the College of Propaganda, Rome, where was ordained a priest on 21 December 1842.