[C19fan]

Read the article. Goes into depth how Cardinal Newman's writings had a big influence on His Holiness. It would be nice if Newman was still around to give an intellectual pummeling to Dawkins and others of his ilk.

[Artemis Webb]

[AnAmericanMother]

The good Cardinal beat Charles Kingsley to a bloody pulp. He’s done his share.

[AnAmericanMother]

It's interesting to me how the British papers always use a picture of Cardinal Newman as a very, very old man, ill and infirm, instead of one of his portraits from when he was given his red hat -- or the splendid portrait sketch by George Richmond when Newman was in his forties -