English cardinal John Newman to be declared a saint

English cardinal John Newman to be declared a saint (Guardian)

One of the most significant figures in 19th-century Britain is to be declared a saint by Pope Francis.

Cardinal John Newman will be canonised in a ceremony in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City on 13 October, almost 130 years after he died. He will be the first English person born since the 17th century to be declared a saint by the Catholic church.

Newman was ordained as a priest in the Church of England but converted to Catholicism in 1845. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures from his era for both Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism, revered for his hymns and poetry and for his devotion to the people of Birmingham...

An English Catholic hero: a very short biography of John Henry Newman (Catholic Herald)

Newman combined intellectual insight with an almost childlike simplicity...

Cardinal Newman a saint for the modern age (Crux)

Cardinal John Henry Newman lived half of his life as an Anglican before converting to Catholicism. This Sunday, leaders of both congregations will be present in Rome to celebrate his much-anticipated canonization by Pope Francis.

In an interview with Crux, Jack Valero, the press and media coordinator of the Newman Canonization Committee, outlines why he believe Newman offers a model for Catholics trying to engage in public life and why this giant of the 19th century has just as much relevance for today’s Catholics...

Why it is timely to canonise Newman during Amazon synod (The Tablet)

John Henry Newman, the brilliant, prolific Victorian writer and priest risked everything to be received into the Roman Church. He couldn’t have occupied a more different world than that of the Amazon today.

The English cardinal will be declared a saint by Pope Francis on 13 October at the mid-point of a Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazon region. From the outset, they seem like disconnected events. Yet the spirit of Newman is hovering over the synod gathering as it seeks out new pathways for the 21st century Church.

Since his death, Newman’s writings have been a guiding light for Catholics interested in developing Christian thought, and how the Church can implement authentic reform in dialogue with its tradition. It was the Victorian cardinal who offered some of the theological building blocks for the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 gathering which set a blueprint for the contemporary Church.

More broadly, the Francis papacy, the synod of bishops and Newman are all reminders that to be Catholic is to be both traditional and radical. Both words draw meaning from going back to the root...

We are all toiling in the shadow of St. John Henry Newman

to the men and women of our time, Newman seems somewhat antique, his prose deliciously pre-modern, the span of his intellectual and spiritual development marked by a kind of rigor and depth not often found in this the Age of Twitter...

With Newman, the church gains its 'saint for modern times'

Blessed John Henry Newman widely seen as an architect of the modern church

Both from NCR

As an Anglican, I associate John Henry Newman with the Tracts for the Times along with Edward Pusey and John Keble. As a result of them, Anglicans will frequently describe themselves as both Protestant and Catholic.

Prince praises Newman; others promote him as ‘doctor of the Church’ (Crux)

Something positive to come out of Rome.