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John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.
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culture · English philosopher and cardinal (1801–1890) · theologian · poet · Anglican priest · Catholic priest · novelist · university teacher · hymnwriter · philosopher · writer · librettist · also John Henry Newman, Catholicus, Blessed John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman, John Henry, Cardinal Newman, Saint John Newman
Born 21 February 1801 · Died 11 August 1890 · Q44490
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2026· 7 entries
“s character Stephen Dedalus as”
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“In the view of the medical and health professionals in attendance, burial in a wooden coffin in a very damp site makes this kind of total decomposition of the body unsurprising.”
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“There have been men before now, who have supposed Christian love was so diffuse as not to admit of concentration upon individuals; so that we ought to love all men equally. ... Now I shall maintain here, in opposition to such notions of Christian love, and with our Saviour”
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Oldham Chronicle: Congratulations to the Saint John Henry Newman Catholic College Class of 2026
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National Catholic Register: St. John Henry Newman and the ‘Idea of a Professor’
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Pope Leo XIV made Newman's commemoration an optional memorial and inscribed it on the General Roman Calendar
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2025· 6 entries
Crux: Leo XIV declares St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church
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America Magazine: Pope Leo declares St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church and co-patron of Catholic education
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National Catholic Reporter: Celebrating our new doctor of the church: St. John Henry Newman
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National Catholic Register: American Bishops Celebrate St. John Henry Newman
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America Magazine: St. John Henry Newman will be named doctor of the church by Pope Leo
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And was also named co-patron of Catholic education, joining Saint Thomas Aquinas
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2022· 1 entry
National Catholic Register: John Henry Newman Is a Saint for the Homemaker
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2009· 1 entry
Added an afterword in which he put forward evidence that Newman was a heterosexual
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2001· 1 entry
Jack Sullivan, an American deacon from Marshfield in Massachusetts, attributed his recovery from a spinal cord disorder to the intercession of Newman
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1991· 1 entry
Newman was proclaimed venerable by Pope John Paul II after a thorough examination of his life and work by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
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1913· 1 entry
A combined critical edition, edited by Wilfrid Ward, was published
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1890· 6 entries
Died 1890-08-11.
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Has suffered almost as much misrepresentation as he did during his lifetime
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“Jednego się tylko lękam: obecności grzechu wśród nas. Bracia moi, wzrost Kościoła nie zależy ani od papieża i biskupów, ani od duchowieństwa i zakonów, zależy tylko od nas.”
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“Podemos creer lo que elijamos. Somos responsables de lo que elegimos creer. We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
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“Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!”
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“Papież staje się bogiem, nikt nie ośmiela mu się przeciwstawić, nie orientuje się w prawdziwych wydarzeniach i popełnia okrutne czyny, choć tego nie zamierza.”
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1889· 1 entry
“s soul after his death. Sir Edward Elgar A copy of the poem was given to Sir Edward Elgar in 1889 as a wedding present, and he set it to music for the 1900 Birmingham festival. English Oratory John Newman founded the first English Oratory in 1848, at Maryvale in Birmingham, moving to St Wilfrid”
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1888· 1 entry
It was renamed the Oxford University Newman Society in recognition of Newman's efforts on behalf of Catholicism in that university city
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1880· 1 entry
Newman confessed to an "extreme joy" that Conservative Benjamin Disraeli was no longer in power, and expressed the hope that Disraeli would be gone permanently
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1879· 2 entries
Career landmark: cardinal-deacon (1879–1890).
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Was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his services to the cause of the Catholic Church in England
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1878· 1 entry
Newman's old college elected him an honorary fellow, and he revisited Oxford after an interval of thirty-two years, on the same day Pope Pius IX died
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1877· 2 entries
In the republication of his Anglican works, he added to the two volumes containing his defence of the via media, a long preface in which he criticised and replied to anti-Catholic arguments of his own which were containe
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Allowed that "in a religion that embraces large and separate classes of adherents there always is of necessity to a certain extent an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine"
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1870· 1 entry
Newman published his Grammar of Assent, a closely reasoned work in which the case for religious belief is maintained by arguments somewhat different from those commonly used by Catholic theologians of the time
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1865· 1 entry
“[T]here are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism.”
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1863· 1 entry
In a response to Thomas William Allies, while agreeing that slavery was bad, Newman would not publicly condemn it as "intrinsically evil" on the grounds that it had been tolerated by St Paul—thus asserting that slavery i
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1862· 1 entry
Newman began to prepare autobiographical and other memoranda to vindicate his career
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1861· 1 entry
Was welcomed by him "as only he can welcome"; she would never forget "the brightness that lit up his worn face as he received me at the door, carrying in several packages himself"
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1859· 1 entry
Newman established, in connection with the Birmingham Oratory, a school for the education of the sons of gentlemen along lines similar to those of English public schools
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1858· 1 entry
Newman projected a branch house of the Oratory at Oxford; but this project was opposed by Father (later Cardinal) Henry Edward Manning, another influential convert from Anglicanism, and others
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1854· 3 entries
Cullen wrote a letter to the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (now called the Dicastery for Evangelization), criticising Newman's liberal exercise of authority within the new university:
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At the request of the Irish Catholic bishops, Newman went to Dublin as rector of the newly established Catholic University of Ireland, now University College Dublin
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Which later became University College Dublin
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1851· 1 entry
"there is an element of foppery—even in dress and manner; a fastidious, maundering, die-away effeminacy, which is mistaken for purity and refinement"
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1850· 1 entry
Was brought to England by the Evangelical Alliance, which portrayed him as a victim, to speak against the Catholic Church
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1845· 2 entries
Career landmark: Conversion to Catholicism.
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Newman resigned his teaching post at Oxford, left the Church of England and was received into the Catholic Church
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1843· 1 entry
Frederick Oakeley and Albany James Christie in 1845
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1842· 2 entries
Becoming Protestant and asking for political asylum in Corfu
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Newman withdrew to Littlemore with a small band of followers, and lived in semi-monastic conditions
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1841· 3 entries
The Roman Inquisition had suspended Achilli's priestly faculties for sexual misconduct and sentenced Achilli to three years of penance in a Dominican house
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Newman later wrote: "I was on my death-bed, as regards my membership with the Anglican Church
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“I was on my death-bed, as regards my membership with the Anglican Church.”
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1836· 1 entry
The Tractarians appeared as an activist group, in united opposition to the appointment of Renn Dickson Hampden as Regius Professor of Divinity
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1835· 2 entries
Professor Edward Pusey joined the Oxford Movement and contributed tracts on Baptism and the Eucharist, and the wider movement became known as the so-called "Puseyites", a term soon generally applied to Anglican ritualist
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Based on a half-acre plot and £100 given by Oriel College
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1834· 1 entry
Or 1835; and at Naples again, in 1840, in the case of a child of fi[f]teen
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1833· 1 entry
Newman wrote that, despite having "willingly" accepted the call to celibacy, he felt "not the less
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1832· 1 entry
His difference with Hawkins as to the "substantially religious nature" of a college tutorship became acute and prompted his resignation
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1828· 1 entry
Newman supported and secured the election of Edward Hawkins as Provost of Oriel over John Keble
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1827· 3 entries
On the occasion of the re-election of Robert Peel as Member of Parliament for the university: Newman opposed Peel on personal grounds
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Had already earned the reputation of a scandalous friar
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Newman was a preacher at Whitehall
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1826· 1 entry
Newman returned as a tutor to Oriel, and the same year Richard Hurrell Froude, described by Newman as "one of the acutest, cleverest and deepest men" he ever met, was elected fellow there
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1825· 1 entry
At Whately's request, Newman became vice-principal of St Alban Hall, but he held this post for only one year
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1816· 1 entry
As the saving of his soul, he began to shift away from his early Calvinism
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1814· 1 entry
Lent Newman books from the English Calvinist tradition
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-02-21.
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