Cardinal Newman was passionate about education. He had an idea for what a university should be like and clear ideas about what a school should be like. Faith Today visited The Oratory School in South Oxfordshire which he founded to find out more.
Pope Benedict has always had a great interest in Cardinal Newman, Fr Roderick Strange, Rector of the Beda College, Rome explains why.
Faith Today met Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh and President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland to talk about the Pope’s forthcoming visit to Scotland, St Ninian and the amazing Mrs Muldoon!
Deacon Jack Sullivan’s miraculous healing from a debilitating spinal problem paved the way for Cardinal Newman’s beatification.
The man who was to become the greatest Anglican theologian, apart from Richard Hooker, as well as the most important Catholic theologian of the nineteenth century, and who has often been called ‘the Father of the Second Vatican Council’ because of the ways in which he anticipated the Council in his writings, did not grow up in an intensely religious family. His parents were ordinary, typical members of the Church of England: they did not belong to the high-church tradition of the seventeenth century, nor had they been affected by the Wesleyan or Evangelical revival that was sweeping the Church of England.
John Henry Newman’s famous hymn Lead Kindly Light is a mirror reflecting his core teaching on the importance of the formation of conscience. Each section of this article has a sub-heading taken from the hymn to illustrate where the chosen phrase resonates within Newman’s sermons and letters.
On Sunday 19 September Pope Benedict will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman in a celebration of the Eucharist attended by over 80,000 people at Cofton Park, Rednal, Birmingham.
The Catholic community will rejoice and give praise to God for raising up from among our own a Servant of God who gave witness during his life of heroic virtue.
We are grateful to Monsignor Michael Sharkey for his insightful and knowledgeable profile.
Clare Ward, Home Mission Advisor for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, unpacks the meaning of the theme of the forthcoming Papal Visit offering insights from four different Gospel stories.
Father Richard Duffield is the Actor, the Postulator if you like, for the Cause for the Canonization of Cardinal Newman. Bible Alive met up with him recently and invited him to help us prepare for the Mass in Coventry at which Pope Benedict will bestow on Cardinal John Henry Newman the title ‘Blessed’.
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