J H Newman age 23 when he preached his first sermon.

Styles of John Henry Newman
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
Posthumous style	Venerable
Titular church	San Giorgio al Velabro

The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, C.O. (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an Anglican convert to Roman Catholicism, later made a cardinal, and in 1991 proclaimed 'Venerable'. The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a congregation of Catholic Priests and Lay-brothers who live together in a community bound together by no formal Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1801 ( MDCCCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday Events 2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. In early life he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of whom were members of the University of Oxford, who sought The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after his conversion he wrote a number of influential books, including Via Media, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, and the Grammar of Assent. Development of doctrine is a term used by John Henry Newman and other theologians influenced by him to describe the way Catholic teaching has become more detailed An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent is John Henry Newman 's seminal work

Family

John Henry Newman was born in London and was the eldest son of John Newman? (d. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. 1824), banker, of the firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co. ; his grandfather was a London grocer who originally came from Cambridgeshire. History Cambridgeshire is noted as the site of some of the earliest known Neolithic permanent settlement in the United Kingdom, along with sites at Fengate The Newman family was understood to be of Dutch extraction, and the name itself, spelt "Newmann" in an earlier generation, may possibly suggest Hebrew (Jewish) origin, although Newmann is also a common spelling as a Calvinist Dutch name. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Sephardi Jews ( Hebrew: ספרדי, Standard Səfardi Tiberian Səp̄arədî; plural His mother Jemima Fourdrinier (d. 1836) was of a Huguenot family, long established in London as engravers and paper manufacturers. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth John Henry was the eldest of six children. The second son, Charles Robert, a man of ability but of impracticable temper, a professed atheist and a recluse, died in 1884. Atheism Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The youngest son, Francis William, was for many years professor of Latin in University College, London. Francis William Newman ( June 27, 1805 &ndash October 7, 1897) the younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was an English Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London Two of the three daughters, Harriett Elizabeth and Jemima Charlotte, married brothers, Thomas and John Mozley; and Anne Mozley, a daughter of the latter, edited in 1892 Newman’s Anglican Life and Correspondence, having been entrusted by him in 1885 with an autobiography written in the third person to form the basis of a narrative of the first thirty years of his life. Thomas Mozley ( 1806 - June 17, 1893) was an English clergyman and writer associated with the Oxford Movement. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The third daughter, Mary Sophia, died unmarried in 1828. The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap

Education

At the age of seven Newman was sent to a private school conducted by Dr. Nicholas at Ealing, at which the father of T.H.Huxley taught mathematics (see Cyril Bibby's '"T. Ealing is a Town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is a Suburban development situated 7 Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 was an English Biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy Cyril Bibby ( b Liverpool, 1 May 1914 as Harold Cyril Bibby; d. H. Huxley: Scientist Extraordinary". ) Newman was distinguished by diligence and good conduct, as also by a certain shyness and aloofness, taking no part in the school games. He spoke of having been "very superstitious" in these early years. He took great delight in reading the Bible, and also the novels of Walter Scott, then in course of publication. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Sir Walter Scott 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 &ndash 21 September 1832 was a prolific Scottish Historical novelist and Poet popular throughout Later, he read some skeptical works by Paine, Hume, and perhaps Voltaire, and was for a time influenced by them. Thomas Paine (January 29 1737 &ndash June 8 1809 was an English Pamphleteer, Revolutionary, radical, Inventor, and Intellectual David Hume (26 April 1711 25 August 1776 Scottish Philosopher, Economist, and Historian is an important figure in Western philosophy François-Marie Arouet ( 21 November 1694 30 May 1778) better known by the Pen name Voltaire, was a French At the age of fifteen, during his last year at school, he was converted, an incident of which he wrote in his Apologia that it was "more certain than that I have hands or feet. " It was in the autumn of 1816 that he thus "fell under the influence of a definite creed," and received into his intellect "impressions of dogma, which, through God's mercy, have never been effaced or obscured" (Apologia, part 3 [3]). Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Saved from the ordeals of a public school, he enjoyed school life. Apart from his academic studies (in which he excelled), he acted in Latin plays, played the violin, won prizes for speeches, and edited periodicals, in which he wrote articles in the style of Addison.

His happy childhood came to an abrupt end in March 1816 when the financial collapse after the Napoleonic Wars forced his father's bank to close. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions While his father tried unsuccessfully to manage a brewery at Alton, Hampshire, Newman stayed on at school through the summer holidays because of the family crisis. Alton is a small market town in Hampshire, England, to the southwest of Farnham. The period from the beginning of August to December 21, 1816, when the next term ended, Newman always regarded as the turning point of his life. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Alone at school and shocked by the family disaster, he fell ill in August. Later he came to see it as one of the three great providential illnesses of his life, for it was in the autumn of 1816 that he underwent a religious conversion under the influence of one of the schoolmasters, Rev Walter Mayers, who had himself shortly before been converted to a Calvinistic form of evangelicalism. Newman had had a conventional upbringing in an ordinary Church of England home, where the emphasis was on the Bible rather than dogmas or sacraments, and where any sort of evangelical "enthusiasm" would have been frowned upon.

The tone of his mind at this time became evangelical and Calvinist, and he held that the Pope was Antichrist. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and For other uses see Antichrist (disambiguation In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or anti-Christ means a person office Matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford on December 4, 1816, he went into residence there in June the following year, and in 1818 he gained a scholarship of £60, tenable for nine years. The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight, or Trinity College for short is one of the "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1818 ( MDCCCXVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar for the purpose of furthering their Education But for this he would have been unable to remain at the university, as in 1819 his father’s bank suspended payment. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year In that year his name was entered at Lincoln's Inn. The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of four Inns of Court in London to which Barristers of England and Wales belong and where Anxiety to do well in the final schools produced the opposite result; he broke down in the examination, and so graduated with third-class honours in 1821. Year 1821 ( MDCCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Desiring to remain in Oxford, he took private pupils and read for a fellowship at Oriel, then "the acknowledged centre of Oxford intellectualism. Oriel College, located in Oriel Square, Oxford, is the fifth oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England " To his intense relief and delight he was elected on April 12, 1822. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Sunday of the Edward Bouverie Pusey was elected a fellow of the same society in 1823. Edward Bouverie Pusey ( 22 August 1800 - 16 September, 1882) was an English churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew Year 1823 ( MDCCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common

Anglican priest

On Trinity Sunday, June 13, 1824, Newman was ordained, and ten days later he preached his first sermon at Over Worton Church, Oxfordshire when on a visit to his former teacher Rev. Events 1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the Celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Walter Mayers. He became, at Pusey’s suggestion, curate of St Clement’s, Oxford. Here for two years he was busily engaged in parochial work, but he found time to write articles on Apollonius of Tyana, on Cicero and on Miracles for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Marcus Tullius Cicero ( Classical Latin ˈkikeroː usually ˈsɪsərəʊ in English January 3, 106 BC &ndash December 7, 43 BC was a Roman A miracle is an event believed to be caused by interposition of Divine intervention by a Supernatural being in the Universe by which the ordinary operation In 1825, at Richard Whately's request, he became vice-principal of St Alban's Hall, but this post he held for one year only. Year 1825 ( MDCCCXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Richard Whately ( 1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English Logician and theological writer who also See also Wardens of Merton College Oxford. Merton College is also the name of a college in the London Borough of Merton. To his association with Whately at this time he attributed much of his "mental improvement" and a partial conquest of his shyness. He assisted Whately in his popular work on logic, and from him he gained his first definite idea of the Christian Church. Logic is the study of the principles of valid demonstration and Inference. Church (disambiguation Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a Place of worship He broke with him in 1827 on the occasion of the re-election of Robert Peel as member of parliament for the University, Newman opposing this on personal grounds. Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 &ndash 2 July 1850 was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April In 1826 he became tutor of 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. For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display Richard Hurrell Froude ( 25 March, 1803 - 28 February, 1836) was an Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement. The two formed a high ideal of the tutorial office as clerical and pastoral rather than secular. In 1827 he was a preacher at Whitehall. Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional

Newman later wrote that the influences leading him in a religiously liberal direction were abruptly checked by his suffering first, at the end of 1827, a kind of nervous collapse brought on by overwork and family financial troubles, and then, at the beginning of 1828, the sudden death of his beloved youngest sister, Mary. There was also a crucial theological factor: his fascination since 1816 with the fathers of the church, whose works he began to read systematically in the long vacation of 1828. This he regarded as his second formative providential illness.

The Oxford Movement

The year following, Newman supported and secured the election of Hawkins as provost of Oriel in preference to John Keble, a choice which he later defended or apologized for as having in effect produced the Oxford Movement with all its consequences. John Keble ( 25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English churchman one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of whom were members of the University of Oxford, who sought In the same year he was appointed vicar of St Mary’s, to which the chapelry of Littlemore was attached, and Pusey was made Regius Professor of Hebrew. Littlemore is an Oxfordshire village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill. The Regius Professorship of Hebrew, founded by Henry VIII, a professorship at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities

At this date, though still nominally associated with the Evangelicals, Newman’s views were gradually assuming a higher ecclesiastical tone, and while local secretary of the Church Missionary Society he circulated an anonymous letter suggesting a method by which Churchmen might practically oust Nonconformists from all control of the society. The Church Mission Society, known as the Church Missionary Society in Australia and New Zealand is a group of evangelistic societies working with the Anglican Church Nonconformism is the refusal to conform to common standards conventions rules customs traditions norms or laws This resulted in his being dismissed from the post, March 8, 1830; and three months later he withdrew from the Bible Society, thus completing his severance from the Low Church party. Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. For the game see 1830 (board game. Year 1830 ( MDCCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display A Bible society is a non-profit organization (usually Ecumenical in makeup devoted to Translating, publishing distributing the Bible at affordable costs Low church is a term of distinction in the Church of England or other Anglican churches initially designed to be pejorative In 1831-1832 he was Select Preacher before the University. In 1832, his difference with Hawkins as to the "substantially religious nature" of a college tutorship becoming acute, he resigned that post. Year 1832 ( MDCCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian

Mediterranean travels

In December he went with Hurrell Froude, on account of the latter's health, for a tour in South Europe. Richard Hurrell Froude ( 25 March, 1803 - 28 February, 1836) was an Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement. On board the mail steamship Hermes they visited Gibraltar, Malta and the Ionian Islands, and subsequently Sicily, Naples and Rome, where Newman made the acquaintance of Nicholas Wiseman. Gibraltar (dʒɨˈbrɒltər is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands This article is about the group of islands west of Greece For the ancient region in western Anatolia see Ionia. Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman ( 2 August 1802 - 15 February 1865) was an English Prelate In a letter home he described Rome as "the most wonderful place on earth," but the Roman Catholic religion as "polytheistic, degrading and idolatrous. Polytheism is belief in or worship of multiple Gods (usually assembled in a pantheon) together with associated Mythology and Rituals Idolatry is usually defined as Worship of any Cult image, Idea, or object, as opposed to the worship of a monotheistic God. " It was during the course of this tour that he wrote most of the short poems which a year later were printed in the Lyra Apostolica. From Rome, instead of accompanying the Froudes home in April, Newman returned to Sicily alone, and fell dangerously ill with gastric or typhoid fever (of which many were dying) at Leonforte. Leonforte (Liunforti is a town in the Province of Enna, Sicilia, Italy. He recovered from it with the conviction that God still had work for him to do in England; he saw this as his third providential illness. In June 1833 he left Palermo for Marseille in an orange boat, which was becalmed in the Strait of Bonifacio, and here he wrote the verses, "Lead, kindly Light", which later became popular as a hymn. Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Palermo ( Sicilian: Palermu, Greek: Panormus, al-Madinah during Muslim rule is a historic City in Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ The Strait of Bonifacio ( Bonifaccio is an older spelling from circa 1861) is the Strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after " Lead Kindly Light " is a Hymn with words written in 1833 by John Henry Newman and 4th verse by Edward H

The Tracts for the Times

John Henry Newman

He was at home again in Oxford on the July 9 and on the 14th Keble preached at St Mary’s an assize sermon on "National Apostasy," which Newman afterwards regarded as the inauguration of the Oxford Movement. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. In the words of Richard William Church, it was "Keble who inspired, Froude who gave the impetus and Newman who took up the work"; but the first organization of it was due to H. Richard Christopher Church Dean Church' ]] Richard Christopher Church ( April 25, 1815 - December 6, 1890) was an English churchman J. Rose, editor of the British Magazine, who has been styled "the Cambridge originator of the Oxford Movement. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England " It was in his rectory house at Hadleigh, Suffolk, that a meeting of High Church clergymen was held, 25th to 26th of July (Newman was not present), at which it was resolved to fight for "the apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer-Book. Hadleigh is an ancient Market town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. " High Church " relates to Ecclesiology and Liturgy in Anglican theology and practice The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. "

A few weeks later Newman started, apparently on his own initiative, the Tracts for the Times, from which the movement was subsequently named "Tractarian. " Its aim was to secure for the Church of England a definite basis of doctrine and discipline, in case either of disestablishment or of a determination of High Churchmen to quit the establishment, an eventuality that was thought not impossible in view of the state's recent high-handed dealings with the sister established Church of Ireland. The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. The teaching of the tracts was supplemented by Newman's Sunday afternoon sermons at St Mary's, the influence of which, especially over the junior members of the university, was increasingly marked during a period of eight years. A tract is a literary work, and in current usage usually Religious in nature In 1835 Pusey joined the movement, which, so far as concerned ritual observances, was later called "Puseyite"; and in 1836 its supporters secured further coherence by their united opposition to the appointment of Hampden as regius professor of divinity. Year 1835 ( MDCCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap His Bampton Lectures (in the preparation of which Blanco White had assisted him) were suspected of heresy, and this suspicion was accentuated by a pamphlet put forth by Newman, Elucidations of Dr Hampden's Theological Statements. The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford were founded by a bequest of John Bampton, Joseph Blanco White ( 11 July 1775 - 20 May 1841) also known as José María Blanco Crespo was a Spanish theologian and Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief

At this date Newman became editor of the British Critic, and he also gave courses of lectures in a side-chapel of St Mary's in defence of the via media ("middle way") of the Anglican Church as between Roman Catholicism and popular Protestantism.

His influence in Oxford was supreme about the year 1839, when, however, his study of the monophysite heresy first raised in his mind a doubt as to whether the Anglican position was really tenable on those principles of ecclesiastical authority which he had accepted. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one alone' and physis meaning 'nature' or Monophysiticism is the Christological position that This doubt returned when he read, in Wiseman's article in the Dublin Review on "The Anglican Claim," the words of Augustine of Hippo against the Donatists, "securus judicat orbis terrarum" ("the verdict of the world is conclusive"), words which suggested a simpler authoritative rule than that of the teaching of antiquity. The Dublin Review was an influential Catholic periodical founded in 1836 by Michael Joseph Quin, Cardinal Wiseman and Daniel O'Connell The Donatists (named for the Berber Christian Donatus Magnus) were followers of a belief considered a Schism by the broader churches of the He said of his reaction,

For a mere sentence, the words of St. Augustine, struck me with a power which I never had felt from any words before . . . . . they were like the 'Tolle, lege, — Tolle, lege,' of the child, which converted St Augustine himself. 'Securus judicat orbis terrarum!' By those great words of the ancient Father, interpreting and summing up the long and varied course of ecclesiastical history, the theology of the Via Media was absolutely pulverised. (Apologia, part 5)

He continued his work, however, as a High Anglican controversialist until he had published, in 1841, Tract 90, the last of the series, in which he put forth, as a kind of proof charge, to test the tenability of all Catholic doctrine within the Church of England, a detailed examination of the 39 Articles, suggesting that their negations were not directed against the authorized creed of Roman Catholics, but only against popular errors and exaggerations. For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles is the most famous and the most controversial of the Tracts for the Times (from which the term

This theory, though not altogether new, aroused much indignation in Oxford, and Archibald Campbell Tait (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), with three other senior tutors, denounced it as "suggesting and opening a way by which men might violate their solemn engagements to the university. Archibald Campbell Tait (21 December 1811 – 3 December 1882 was a priest in the Church of England and an Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the " The alarm was shared by the heads of houses and by others in authority; and, at the request of the Bishop of Oxford, the publication of the Tracts came to an end.

Last years as an Anglican

At this date Newman also resigned the editorship of the British Critic, and was thenceforth, as he later described it, "on his deathbed as regards membership with the Anglican Church. " He now considered the position of Anglicans to be similar to that of the semi-Arians in the Arian controversy; and the arrangement made at this time that a joint Anglican-Lutheran bishopric should be established in Jerusalem, the appointment to lie alternately with the British and Prussian governments, was to him further evidence that the Church of England was not apostolic. Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius (c AD 250-336 who was ruled a heretic by the Christian church at the Council of Nicea. The Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem was an Episcopal see founded in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth century by joint agreement of the Anglican Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state

In 1842 he withdrew to Littlemore, and lived under monastic conditions with a small band of followers, their life being one of great physical austerity as well as anxiety and suspense. Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Littlemore is an Oxfordshire village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill. There, he assigned the task to his disciples of writing of the lives of the English saints, while his time was largely devoted to the completion of an Essay on the development of Christian doctrine, by which principle he sought to reconcile himself to the more complex creed and the practical system of the Roman Catholic Church. Development of doctrine is a term used by John Henry Newman and other theologians influenced by him to describe the way Catholic teaching has become more detailed In February 1843, he published, as an advertisement in the Oxford Conservative Journal, an anonymous but otherwise formal retractation of all the hard things he had said against Rome; in September, after the secession of one of the inmates of the house, he preached his last Anglican sermon at Littlemore and resigned the living of St Mary’s. Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Littlemore is an Oxfordshire village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill.

Conversion to Roman Catholicism

Statue outside the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as Brompton Oratory, in London

An interval of two years elapsed before he was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church (October 9, 1845) by Blessed Dominic Barberi, an Italian Passionist, at the College, Littlemore. The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is an oratory Oratory_(worship, popularly but incorrectly known as the Brompton Oratory, is a Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, born Dominic Barberi, a member of the Passionist Congregation and theologian born near Viterbo Italy 22 June 1792 died Passionism is also an artistic movement Passionists are a Roman Catholic religious order that was founded by St Paul of Littlemore is an Oxfordshire village with a parish council that also represents parts of Rose Hill. In February 1846 he left Oxford for Oscott, where Bishop Wiseman, then vicar-apostolic of the Midland district, resided; and in October he proceeded to Rome, where he was ordained priest by Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni and was given the degree of D. For the game see 1846 (board game. Year 1846 ( MDCCCXLVI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display St Mary's College is the Roman Catholic Seminary of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, though it admits students for the priesthood from Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman ( 2 August 1802 - 15 February 1865) was an English Prelate Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni was an Italian bishop and cardinal D. by Pope Pius IX. Blessed Pope Pius IX (May 13 1792 &ndash February 7 1878 born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was Pope from June 16 1846 until 1878 At the close of 1847 he returned to England as an Oratorian, and resided first at Maryvale (near Oscott); then at St Wilfrid’s College, Cheadle; then at St Ann's, Alcester Street, Birmingham; and finally at Edgbaston, where spacious premises were built for the community, and where (except for four years in Ireland) he lived a secluded life for nearly forty years. Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a congregation of Catholic Priests and Lay-brothers who live together in a community bound together by no formal Old Oscott is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England (previously in the parish of Handsworth, Staffordshire) Cheadle is a small Market town near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12158 according to the 2001 census Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own District committee. The Oratory School was associated with this establishment and has flourished as a well-known boy's boarding school, which has long been renowned for its outstanding academic achievements, leading to its dubbing as 'The Catholic Eton'. The Oratory School is an all-boys Catholic, boarding Public school in Great Britain Before the house at Edgbaston was occupied he had established the London Oratory, with Father Frederick William Faber as its superior, and there (in King William Street, Strand) he delivered a course of lectures on "The Present Position of Catholics in England," in the fifth of which he protested against the anti-Catholic utterances of Giacinto Achilli, an ex-Dominican friar, whom he accused in detail of numerous acts of immorality. The London Oratory is the home of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in the Brompton Road London SW7 Frederick William Faber ( June 28 1814 - September 26 1863) British Hymn writer and theologian, was born at Giovanni Giacinto Achilli (born c 1803 died c 1860 was an Italian Roman Catholic who was discharged from the Priesthood for sexual The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is

Popular Protestant feeling ran very high at the time, partly in consequence of the recent establishment of a Catholic diocesan hierarchy by Pius IX, and criminal proceedings against Newman for libel resulted in an acknowledged gross miscarriage of justice. He was found guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine of £100, while his expenses as defendant amounted to about £14,000, a sum that was at once raised by public subscription, a surplus being spent on the purchase of Rednall, a small property picturesquely situated on the Lickey Hills, with a chapel and cemetery, where Newman now lies buried. Lickey Hills (known locally as simply The Lickeys) are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, eleven miles to the south-west of the centre of In 1854, at the request of the Irish bishops, Newman went to Dublin as rector of the newly-established Catholic University of Ireland there, now University College Dublin. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. The Catholic University of Ireland (Ollscoil Chaitliceach na hÉireann was a Catholic University in Dublin, Ireland and was founded University College Dublin (UCD (An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland Dublin (An It was during this time that he founded the Literary and Historical Society. The Literary and Historical Society (L&H is University College Dublin ' s oldest debating society and the official College Debating Union But practical organization was not among his gifts, and the bishops became jealous of his influence, so that after four years he retired, the best outcome of his stay there being a volume of lectures entitled The Idea of a University, containing some of his most effective writing:

. . . the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery of experiment and speculation. . .

In 1858 he projected a branch house of the Oratory at Oxford; but this was opposed by Cardinal Manning and others as likely to induce Catholics to send their sons to that university, and the scheme was abandoned. Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Henry Edward Manning ( July 15, 1808 - January 14, 1892) was an English Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal When Roman Catholics did begin to attend Oxford from the 1860s onwards, a Catholic club was formed, and in 1888 it was renamed the Oxford University Newman Society in recognition of Newman's efforts on behalf of Catholicism in Oxford. For Newman Centers around North America see Newman Centre. The Oxford University Newman Society (est The Oxford Oratory was finally founded over 100 years later in 1993.

In 1859 he established, in connection with the Birmingham Oratory, a school for the education of the sons of gentlemen on lines similar to those of the English public schools, an important work in which he never ceased to take the greatest interest. Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Newman had a special interest in the publisher Burns & Oates; the owner, James Burns, had published some of the Tractarians, and Burns had himself converted to Roman Catholicism in 1847. Burns & Oates is a British publishing house which now exists as an imprint of Continuum. Newman published several books with the company, effectively saving it. There is even a story that Newman's novel Loss and Gain was written specifically to assist Burns. Loss and Gain is a Philosophical novel by John Henry Newman published in 1848

The Apologia

All this time (since 1841) Newman had been under a cloud, so far as concerned the great mass of cultivated Englishmen, and he was now awaiting an opportunity to vindicate his career. In 1862 he began to prepare autobiographical and other memoranda for the purpose. Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday The occasion came when, in January 1864, Charles Kingsley, reviewing J.A. Froude’s History of England in Macmillan’s Magazine, incidentally asserted that "Father Newman informs us that truth for its own sake need not be, and on the whole ought not to be, a virtue of the Roman clergy. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Charles Kingsley ( June 12 1819 &ndash January 23 1875) was an English Novelist, particularly associated with the James Anthony Froude (Froude rhymes with rood) (23 April 1818 &ndash 20 October 1894 was a controversial English Historian, Novelist, "

Edward Lowth Badeley, who had been a close legal adviser to Newman since the Achilli trial, encouraged him to make a robust rebuttal. Edward Lowth Badeley (1803/4 – 29 March, 1868) was an English Ecclesiastical lawyer a member of the Oxford Movement, who was involved ^[1] After some preliminary sparring between the two, Newman published a pamphlet, Mr Kingsley and Dr Newman: a Correspondence on the Question whether Dr Newman teaches that Truth is no Virtue, (published in 1864 and not reprinted until 1913). The pamphlet has been described as "unsurpassed in the English language for the vigour of its satire". ^[2] However, the anger displayed was later, in a letter to Sir William Cope, admitted to have been largely feigned. Subsequently, again encouraged by Badeley^[1], Newman published in bi-monthly parts his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, a religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic Church. Kingsley’s accusation indeed, in so far as it concerned the Roman clergy generally, was not precisely dealt with; only a passing sentence, in an appendix on lying and equivocation, maintained that English Catholic priests are as truthful as English Catholic laymen; but of the author’s own personal rectitude no room for doubt was left. Newman published a revision of the series of pamphlets in book form in 1865; in 1913 a combined critical edition, edited by Wilfrid Ward, was published.

Newman near the end of his life

Later years

In 1870 he put forth his Grammar of Assent, the most closely reasoned of his works, in which the case for religious belief is maintained by arguments differing somewhat from those commonly used by Roman Catholic theologians; and in 1877, in the republication of his Anglican works, he added to the two volumes containing his defence of the via media a long preface and numerous notes in which he criticized and replied to sundry anti-Catholic arguments of his own in the original issues. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent is John Henry Newman 's seminal work Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common At the time of the First Vatican Council (1869—1870) he was known to be hesitant about formally defining the doctrine of Papal infallibility, and in a private letter to his bishop (William Bernard Ullathorne), surreptitiously published, he denounced the "insolent and aggressive faction" that had pushed the matter forward. The First Vatican Council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Pastor Aeternus of June 29, 1868. Papal infallibility is the Dogma in Catholic theology that by action of the Holy Spirit, the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of William Bernard Ullathorne ( 7 May 1806 – 21 March 1889) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and Missionary

But he made no sign of disapproval when the doctrine was defined, and subsequently, in a letter nominally addressed to the Duke of Norfolk on the occasion of Mr William Ewart Gladstone’s accusing the Roman Church of having "equally repudiated modern thought and ancient history," Newman affirmed that he had always believed the doctrine, and had only feared the deterrent effect of its definition on conversions on account of acknowledged historical difficulties. Henry Fitzalan-Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk KG GCVO VD PC ( 27 December 1847 &ndash 11 February 1917 In this letter, and especially in the postscript to the second edition of it, Newman finally silenced all cavillers as to his not being really at ease within the Roman Church. In 1878 his old college, to his great delight, elected him an honorary fellow, and he revisited Oxford after an interval of thirty-two years. Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common On the same date Pope Pius IX died. Pope Pius IX had long mistrusted Newman, but Pope Leo XIII was encouraged by the Duke of Norfolk and other distinguished Roman Catholic laymen to make Newman a cardinal. Pope Leo XIII ( March 2, 1810 – July 20, 1903) born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. The distinction was a marked one, because he was a simple priest and not resident of Rome. The offer was made in February 1879, and the announcement of it was received with universal applause throughout the English-speaking world. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The "creation" took place on May 12, with the Title of San Giorgio al Velabro. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. San Giorgio in Velabro is a Basilica church in Rome, devoted to St Newman took occasion while in Rome to insist on the lifelong consistency of his opposition to "liberalism in religion. "

Newman's personal coat of arms upon his elevation to the cardinalate. The Latin motto, "COR AD COR LOQVITVR", translates "heart speaks to heart".

After an illness that excited apprehension he returned to England, and thenceforward resided at the Oratory until his death, making occasional visits to London, and chiefly to his old friend, R. W. Church, dean of St Paul's, who as proctor had vetoed the condemnation of Tract 90 in 1841. Richard Christopher Church Dean Church' ]] Richard Christopher Church ( April 25, 1815 - December 6, 1890) was an English churchman The Dean of St Paul's is the head of the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in London, England and an extremely influential position in the As a cardinal Newman published nothing beyond a preface to a work by A. W. Hutton on the Anglican Ministry (1879) and an article "On the Inspiration of Scripture" in The Nineteenth Century (February 1884).

From the latter half of 1886 Newman's health began to fail, and he celebrated mass for the last time on Christmas day 1889. On August 11, 1890 he died of pneumonia at the Birmingham Oratory. Events 2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the Lung. Frequently it is described as lung Parenchyma / alveolar inflammation and abnormal Eight days later, Cardinal Newman was buried in the cemetery at Rednal Hill, Birmingham, at the oratory country house. He shares a grave with his lifelong friend, Ambrose St. John, who had converted to Roman Catholicism at the same time as Newman. Ambrose St John (1815 &ndash 24 May[[ 875]] Edgbaston, Birmingham, 24 May[[ 875]] was an English Oratorian. The pall over the coffin bore his cardinal's motto Cor ad cor loquitur ("Heart speaks to heart"). Inseparable in death as in life, the two men have a joint memorial stone that is inscribed with the words he had chosen: Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem ("Out of shadows and phantasms into the truth").

On February 27, 1891, Cardinal Newman's estate was probated at £4,206 sterling.

Influence and Legacy

Newman’s influence as controversialist and preacher was very great. (He wrote his sermons out beforehand and read them aloud; he was never an extempore speaker. ) For the Roman Catholic Church his conversion secured great prestige and the dissipation of many prejudices. Within it his influence was mainly in the direction of a broader spirit and of a recognition of the important part played by development both in doctrine and in Church government. Development of doctrine is a term used by John Henry Newman and other theologians influenced by him to describe the way Catholic teaching has become more detailed And although he never called himself a mystic, he showed that in his judgment spiritual truth is apprehended by direct intuition, as an antecedent necessity to the professedly purely rational basis of the Roman Catholic creed. Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity Within the Anglican Church, and even within the more strictly Protestant Churches, his influence was greater, but in a different direction, viz, in showing the necessity of dogma and the indispensableness of the austere, ascetic, chastened and graver side of the Christian religion. Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas, Greek, plural) is the established Belief or

If his teaching as to the Church was less widely followed, it was because of doubts as to the thoroughness of his knowledge of history and as to his freedom from bias as a critic. Some hundreds of clergymen, influenced by the movement of which for ten or twelve years he was the acknowledged leader, made their submission to the Church of Rome; but a very much larger number, who also came under its influence, did not accept that belief in the Church involves belief in the pope. The natural tendency of his mind is often (and correctly) spoken of as skeptical.

He held that, apart from an interior and unreasoned conviction, there is no cogent proof of the existence of God; and in Tract 85 he dealt with the difficulties of the Creed and of the canon of Scripture, with the apparent implication that they are insurmountable unless overridden by the authority of an infallible Church. In his own case these views did not lead to scepticism, because he had always possessed the necessary interior conviction; and in writing Tract 85 his only doubt would have been where the true Church is to be found. But, so far as the rest of the world is concerned, his teaching amounts to this: that the man who has not this interior conviction has no choice but to remain an agnostic, while the man who has it is bound sooner or later to become a Catholic.

The University he founded, the Catholic University of Ireland has since evolved into University College Dublin, Ireland's largest University which has contributed significantly to Ireland's development over the last 150 years. The Catholic University of Ireland (Ollscoil Chaitliceach na hÉireann was a Catholic University in Dublin, Ireland and was founded University College Dublin (UCD (An Coláiste Ollscoile Baile Átha Cliath - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland Dublin (An

Character

He was a man of magnetic personality, with an intense belief in the significance of his own career; and his character had strengths as well as weaknesses. As a poet he had inspiration and genuine power. Some of his short and earlier poems, in spite of a characteristic element of fierceness and intolerance in one or two cases, are described by R. H. Hutton as "unequalled for grandeur of outline, purity of taste and radiance of total effect"; while his latest and longest, The Dream of Gerontius, is generally recognized as the happiest effort to represent the unseen world that has been made since the time of Dante. The Dream of Gerontius is a poem written by John Henry Newman (February 21 1801 – August 11 1890 consisting of the prayer of a dying man and angelic and demonic His prose style, especially in his Catholic days, is fresh and vigorous, and is attractive to many who do not sympathize with his conclusions, from the apparent candour with which difficulties are admitted and grappled with, while in his private correspondence there is a charm that places it at the head of that branch of English literature.

He was too sensitive and self-conscious to be altogether successful as a leader of men, and too impetuous to take part in public affairs; but he had many of the gifts that go to make a first-rate journalist, for, "with all his love for and his profound study of antiquity, there was something about him that was conspicuously modern. " Nevertheless, with the scientific and critical literature of the years 1850—1890 he was barely acquainted, and he knew no German. There are a few passages in his writings in which he seems to show some sympathy with a broader theology. Thus he admitted that there was "something true and divinely revealed in every religion" Arians of the Fourth Century, 1. 3 ^[3] He held that "freedom from symbols and articles is abstractedly the highest state of Christian communion," but was "the peculiar privilege of the primitive Church. " (Ibid, 1. 2 ^[4]

Even in 1877 he 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. " (Prophetical Office, preface to third edition^[5] These admissions, together with his elucidation of the idea of doctrinal development and his eloquent assertion of the supremacy of conscience, have led some critics to hold that, in spite of all his protests to the contrary, he was himself somewhat of a Liberal. But it is certain that he explained to his own satisfaction and accepted every item of the Roman Catholic creed, even going beyond it, as in holding the pope to be infallible in canonization; and while expressing his preference for English as compared with Italian devotional forms, he was himself one of the first to introduce such into England, together with the ritual peculiarities of the local Roman Church. The motto that he adopted for use with the arms emblazoned for him as cardinal—Cor ad cor loquitur, and that which he directed to be engraved on his memorial tablet at Edgbaston—Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem—together seem to disclose as much as can be disclosed of the secret of a life which, both to contemporaries and to later students, has been one of almost fascinating interest, at once devout and inquiring, affectionate and yet sternly self-restrained.

Sexuality

The sexuality of Newman and his circle has long been a subject for conjecture. Much of the evidence is ambiguous. Charles Kingsley’s famous attack on Newman in 1864, which spurred Newman to write his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, contains much of Kingley's sexualised language; this attack may be interpreted as a conflict over meanings of masculinity. Others wrote of Newman’s lack of virility and his ‘characteristically feminine nature’^[6].

The idea that the Oxford Movement contained a significant stream of homoeroticism was popularised by Geoffrey Faber in Oxford Apostles (1933)^[7], in which he portrayed Newman as a sublimated homosexual with feminine characteristics. Certainly the Oxford Movement attracted a number of fervent young men and produced some intense masculine friendships, although in the self-contained male world of Oxford University this was hardly surprising. ^[8].

Newman did not shun friendships with women, but these were invariably at a distance. There is no evidence that he was ever drawn to a heterosexual union. From the age of 15 he was convinced that it was the will of God that he should lead a single life. In Oxford he taught that celibacy, for the priesthood, was ‘a high state of life, to which the multitude of men cannot aspire’. His deepest emotional relationships were with younger men who were his disciples. The most significant of these were the flamboyant Richard Hurrell Froude, who died in 1836, and Ambrose St John, who lived with Newman from 1843^[9]. He preceded Newman into the Roman Catholic Church and became a member of the Birmingham Oratory, where he lived until his death in 1875 ^[10].

Newman was profoundly affected by the loss of these intimate friends. Newman wrote after the death of Ambrose St John in 1875: "I have ever thought no bereavement was equal to that of a husband's or a wife's, but I feel it difficult to believe that any can be greater, or any one's sorrow greater, than mine. " At his own request, he was buried in the same grave as St John. ^[11]

Newman and Manning

The two great figures of the late nineteenth century Roman Catholic Church in England both became cardinals and both were former Anglican clergymen. Yet there was little sympathy between them. Perhaps it was inevitable they should have been rivals, two luminaries in such a small world. But there was more.

Added to the natural rivalry of a St. Jerome and a Saint Augustine, there was the lack of sympathy between a theologian and a practical pastor, between a scholar and a man of affairs. Jerome (c 347 – September 30, 420) ( Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος Newman's nature was, as seen above, somewhat feminine, while Henry Edward Cardinal Manning was an outdoorsman. Henry Edward Manning ( July 15, 1808 - January 14, 1892) was an English Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal One was a lifelong celibate who lived in the all male worlds of Oxford and a Catholic religious order, the other a widower of a much beloved wife. One was a university don, the other a champion of the working man.

It is impossible to place such labels as liberal and conservative on Newman and Manning. The very act of becoming Catholic in mid nineteenth century England caused them to be seen as arch-reactionaries in contemporary circles. But within the Catholic context, Newman is seen as theologically the more liberal because of his reservations about the declaration of papal infallibility. Manning favored the formal declaration of the doctrine. However, it is Manning who has the more modern approach to social questions. Indeed, he may be seen as the great pioneer of modern Catholic teaching on social justice. He had a major role in shaping the famous encyclical of Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum. Rerum Novarum (Translation Of New Things) is an Encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 16 1891. This makes him appear rather more 'left' than Newman.

Manning changed history. Without his new championing of social justice, many of the working people of Europe and America might have been lost to the Catholic Church. His credibility and popularity helped make the Catholic Church in England respectable and influential, after years of persecution. But Newman also changed history; by challenging the theological foundations of the Church of England, he caused many Anglicans to question their membership in that body. Quite a number became Roman Catholic.

Cause for his canonization

In 1991, Newman was proclaimed venerable after a thorough examination of his life and work by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. The Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints ( Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process One miracle attributed to Newman's intercession must occur and be fully investigated and approved by the Vatican before he can be beatified. Beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed via Greek μακάριος makarios) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic church A second miracle would then be necessary for his canonization. Canonization is the act by which a particular Christian church declares a deceased person to be a Saint and is included in the canon or list of recognized saints

In October 2005, Fr Paul Chavasse, provost of the Birmingham Oratory, who is the postulator responsible for the cause, announced that a miraculous cure had occurred. Birmingham Oratory is a Catholic oratory and church, also known as Little Rome in Birmingham. In the Roman Catholic Church, a postulator is a church official who presents a plea for canonization or beatification of a person they think should become a saint ^[12][13] Jack Sullivan, a deacon from Marshfield, Massachusetts in the United States, is attributing his recovery from a spinal cord disorder to Cardinal Newman. Deacon is a role in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind but which varies among theological and denominational traditions Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[14] The miracle occurred in the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Boston, whose responsibility it is to determine its validity. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston ( Latin: Archidioecesis Bostoniensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church In August 2006 the Archbishop of Boston, Sean O'Malley announced he was passing details to the Vatican. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston ( Latin: Archidioecesis Bostoniensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic ^[15]

On April 24, 2008 the Press Secretary to the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory reported that the Consulta Medica at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints had met that day and voted unanimously that Sullivan's recovery defies any scientific or medical explanation. Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Birmingham Oratory is a Catholic oratory and church, also known as Little Rome in Birmingham. The Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints ( Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process The cause now awaits the vote of the Theological Consultors on the alleged miracle before it can be sent to the members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, whose role it is to advise Pope Benedict XVI, who could then declare Newman beatified.

A second miracle would need to be confirmed before Newman could be canonized as a saint. Canonization is the act by which a particular Christian church declares a deceased person to be a Saint and is included in the canon or list of recognized saints A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated a high level of Holiness and Sanctity The Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints is expected to consider the case of a 17 year old New Hampshire resident, who fully recovered from severe head injuries suffered in a car accident after invoking Cardinal Newman. The Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints ( Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. ^[14]

Several sources have suggested that Pope Benedict XVI has taken a personal interest in Newman's cause. ^[14] Fr Chavasse expanded on his remarks at the Michaelmas 2006 dinner of the Oxford University Newman Society (held in November), suggesting that Pope Benedict XVI has shown a personal interest in Newman's cause. Michaelmas, the feast of St Michael the Archangel (also the Feast of SS Michael Gabriel and Raphael or the Feast of Michael and All Angels) is a day in the For Newman Centers around North America see Newman Centre. The Oxford University Newman Society (est Pope Benedict XVI ( Latin: Benedictus PP XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger

Works

Anglican period

• Arians of the Fourth Century (1833)
• Tracts for the Times (1833-1841)
• British Critic (1836-1842)
• On the Prophetical Office of the Church (1837)
• Lectures on Justification (1838)
• Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834-1843)
• Select Treatises of St. Athanasius (1842, 1844)
• Lives of the English Saints (1843-44)
• Essays on Miracles (1826, 1843)
• Oxford University Sermons (1843)
• Sermons on Subjects of the Day (1843)
• Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
• Retractation of Anti-Catholic Statements (1845)

Catholic Period

• Loss and Gain (novel - 1848)
• Faith and Prejudice and Other Sermons (various)
• Discourses to Mixed Congregations (1849)
• Difficulties of Anglicans (1850)
• Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)
• Idea of a University (1852 and 1858)
• Cathedra Sempiterna (1852)
• Callista (novel - 1855)
• The Rambler (editor) (1859-1860)
• Apologia Pro Vita Sua (autobiography - 1866, 1865)
• Letter to Dr. Loss and Gain is a Philosophical novel by John Henry Newman published in 1848 This article deals with the novel Callista. For other uses of the word see Callista (disambiguation. The Rambler was a Catholic periodical founded by liberal converts to Catholicism and closely associated with the names of Lord Acton, Richard Simpson and Pusey (1865)
• The Dream of Gerontius (1865)
• An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870)
• Sermons Preached on Various Occasions (various/1874)
• Letter to the Duke of Norfolk (1875)
• Five Letters (1875)
• Sermon Notes (1849-1878)
• Select Treatises of St. Athanasius (1881)
• On the Inspiration of Scripture (1884)
• Development of Religious Error (1885)

See also

• The Literary and Historical Society, University College Dublin. The Literary and Historical Society (L&H is University College Dublin ' s oldest debating society and the official College Debating Union

External links

• "Un uomo finito": website for the theater play about John Henry Newman and Giovanni Papini (in italian)

Newman Societies

• Cardinal Newman Society (US)
• Holy Cross Cardinal Newman Society
• Newman Catholic Student Center (University of North Carolina)
• International Centre of Newman Friends
• McGill Newman Students Society
• Oxford University Newman Society
• University College Dublin Newman Society
• Venerable John Henry Newman Association (USA)
• Bucknell University Newman Society
• Cardinal Newman Catholic school, Brighton, England.
• Cardenal Newman College, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Newman University College, Birmingham, England
• Newman Centre, St. Thomas More College (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CAN)

Life and Writings

• Newman Reader - Works of John Henry Newman
• John Henry Newman: Portraits
• John Henry Newman: "Father" of Vatican II
• Christina Rossetti's Cardinal Newman
• Catholic Encyclopaedia: John Henry Newman
• National Institute for Newman Studies, Pittsburgh, PA

Cause

• 1996 article on the canonisation process
• Promulgation of Newman as venerable (in Latin)

References

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