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Cardinal Newman’s influence spreads more than a century later
Written by Michael Coren
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:30
John Henry Cardinal Newman is to be beatified by Pope Benedict in Britain in September, making him the first English man or woman who lived after the 17th century to be so honoured. It’s long overdue. Put simply, Newman is the literary and theological champion of the new wave of Christian orthodoxy.
Born in 1801, his life is the flesh-and-blood reflection of both the journey of a Protestant Christian towards Catholicism and of the evolution in the Anglo-Saxon world of that same Roman Catholic Church. He began as an evangelical within the Church of England but gradually as an ordained minister moved towards Anglo-Catholicism and became a leading member of the Oxford Movement, intent on emphasizing the Catholic nature of the English church. The argument was that the Catholic faith had never left the country, in spite of the reformation, and that Anglican rather than Roman was the true Catholicism
catholicregister.org/michael-coren
Written by Michael Coren
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:30
John Henry Cardinal Newman is to be beatified by Pope Benedict in Britain in September, making him the first English man or woman who lived after the 17th century to be so honoured. It’s long overdue. Put simply, Newman is the literary and theological champion of the new wave of Christian orthodoxy.
Born in 1801, his life is the flesh-and-blood reflection of both the journey of a Protestant Christian towards Catholicism and of the evolution in the Anglo-Saxon world of that same Roman Catholic Church. He began as an evangelical within the Church of England but gradually as an ordained minister moved towards Anglo-Catholicism and became a leading member of the Oxford Movement, intent on emphasizing the Catholic nature of the English church. The argument was that the Catholic faith had never left the country, in spite of the reformation, and that Anglican rather than Roman was the true Catholicism
catholicregister.org/michael-coren