 Anticipating long and fruitless discussion, Spalding dispensed with procedure and sent the draft to archbishop James Gibbons, indicating that he had made suggested changes where appropriate.Cardinal John McCloskey of New York gave it the "imprimatur", Gibbons approved the text, and it was published in April 1885.Though not universally applauded, the Baltimore Catechism remained the standard catechism in the United States for the next eighty years.