Newman and the New Ultramontanism
COMMENTARY: The newest doctor of the Catholic Church would surely deplore the heresy’s 21st-century version.
COMMENTARY: The newest doctor of the Catholic Church would surely deplore the heresy’s 21st-century version.
'Newman’s impressive spiritual and cultural stature will surely serve as an inspiration to new generations whose hearts thirst for the infinite.'
Cardinal Nichols noted that the request to recognize Newman, the most recently canonized saint in England and Wales, had been before the Holy See “for some time” and has been widely supported across the globe.
The Vatican has not yet confirmed the date of Newman’s formal proclamation as a doctor of the Church.
COMMENTARY: From Chesterton to Newman, Catholic thinkers have warned that true freedom includes the ability to reject what is destructive.
‘Let not Thy Blood be shed for them in vain …’
Cardinal Newman’s gifts are especially well-suited to the work of the New Evangelization.
Rome is abuzz with the Pan-Amazonian Synod and the bishops from the Amazon region continue to discuss the pastoral needs of its millions of inhabitants. What have been the biggest surprises so far? We talk with Edward Pentin, Register Rome correspondent. And then we get a preview of this Sunday’s canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
COMMENTARY: The former Oxford don, who will be canonized with four other saints Oct. 13, is not as well-known to the Catholic masses as he should be.
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