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’.
‘God’s business is mine; nothing that concerns him is foreign to me.’ So St Bernard of Clairvaux is reputed to have said.
Canon Andrew White is known as the Vicar of Baghdad because of his amazing and courageous work in this war torn country.
Bible Alive met up with him recently to talk about his special ministry on the frontline.
When one walks round the City of London, the financial sector of the capital, one is tempted to think, ‘Recession? What recession?’ for all around gleaming cathedrals of finance rise to the sky. Unlike in Ireland where many new buildings have had to be abandoned because of the collapse of financing, these edifices grow every day like mushrooms reaching for the light.
The heart is our meeting place with God; there we make ourselves present to God’s presence. Through entering into our heart, we begin to pray: we enter into familiar conversation with Jesus, and through him with the Father. As one spiritual writer well says, ‘Our lips and our mouth recite prayers, our intellect practices reflection and meditation, our heart and our mind are lifted up to God.’
Oliver Plunkett was born into a wealthy and influential Catholic family on 1 November 1625 at Loughcrew, near Oldcastle in County Meath. Oliver was the second of five children, with an elder brother, Edward, and three younger sisters, Catherine, Anne and Mary.
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