A Bold Catholic Investment In Inner-City Education
by George WeigelGeorge Weigel reflects upon the opening of a new Catholic school in Baltimore, and the devout woman after whom the school is named. Continue Reading »
A True Shepherd
by Raymond J. de SouzaStefan Wyszyński's efforts at reconciliation with Germany show that he was also able to do courageous and brilliant things without popular support—the mark of a true shepherd. Continue Reading »
The Sinner and the Saint
by Kenneth L. WoodwardIf more of the old canonization system had been in place, the McCarrick Report would certainly have delayed John Paul II’s canonization.
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Hawthorne’s Daughter
by Patricia SnowIn 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church. She was forty years old. Within a few years of her conversion she conceived a heroic ministry to destitute cancer patients at a time when cancer was believed to be contagious. She . . . . Continue Reading »
A Paper Church
by Julia YostJohn Henry Newman joined the Catholic Church on October 9, 1845, after concluding that the via media of Anglo-Catholicism, which he had sought for years to vindicate, existed only in theory, a dream of dons. He had constructed a “paper religion”; his notion of the Church of England . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod–2019: #4
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIWe honor the memory of John Henry Newman, this newest of God’s saints, by imitating his courage, and the conviction that underwrote it. Continue Reading »
Newman’s Shocking Faith
by Dan HitchensThe real meaning of “faith” can be discovered in the writings of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
Humble John Henry Newman
by Carl R. TruemanFor all of his intellectual brilliance, John Henry Newman had a humble concern for ordinary people. Continue Reading »
Two False Newmans
by Matthew SchmitzOn October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world will crowd St. Peter’s Square to see the greatest religious thinker of Victorian England raised to the altars. Amid the joy and apparent concord of that day, there will be at least two . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul VI and the Canonization of Vatican II
by Jake NeuBy canonizing John XXIII, John Paul II, and Paul VI, Pope Francis is embracing Vatican II and the changes it wrought. Continue Reading »
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