Cardinal John Henry Newman
Posted on 04/24/2008 5:57:39 AM PDT by NYer
.- The Vatican has approved the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the English convert and theologian who has had immense influence upon English-speaking Catholicism, the Birmingham Mail reports.
John Henry Newman was born in 1801. As an Anglican priest, he led the Oxford Movement that sought to return the Church of England to its Catholic roots. His conversion to Catholicism in 1845 rocked Victorian England. After becoming an Oratorian priest, he was involved in the establishment of the Birmingham Oratory.
He died in 1890 and is buried at the oratory country house Rednall Hill.
The Catholic Church has accepted as miraculous the cure of an American deacon’s crippling spinal disorder. The deacon, Jack Sullivan of Marshfield, Massachusetts, prayed for John Henry Newman’s intercession.
At his beatification ceremony later this year, John Henry Newman will receive the title “Blessed.” He will need one more recognized miracle to be canonized.
The case of a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy who survived serious head injuries from a car crash is being investigated as a possible second miracle.
With thanks to freeper Huber for bringing this to my attention.
Lead kindly light..................
Man am I ever glad I took the easy way out and just did what Jesus said to do and got myself Born Again. All that miracle stuff is just to much work.
I like this photograph. He looks as though he's about to speak.
It's not as simple as it seems.
Yes, the Apologia of Newman conquers by its style, yet its style is far from being the main cause of its profound effect, its present (and increasing) position in European letters and in the story of our civilization. Its style alone, nay, its matter {viii} alone, would not have achieved these things. What has achieved them?The place of the Apologia is due to the fact that it puts conclusively, convincingly, and down to the very roots of the matter, the method by which a high intelligence, not only Anglican but of Oxford, and from the heart of Oxford, accepted the Faith.
It is one of the myriad converging proofs of Catholic Truth that its appeal is multiform. From its beginnings men appreciated that. It is all bound up in the story of Whitsuntide (in the octave of which this is written). One man and woman thus, another man, another woman in a wholly different way, from attitudes most adverse, from positions each, in the eyes of an opponent, impossibly hostile, repeats the famous words, "My Lord and my God."
- from the forward by Hillaire Belloc
What if you already have the title “blessed” or “saint?”
Well, isn’t that nice! But will it make the John Newman/John Neumann confusion better, or worse?
And we’re all happy for you, too.
Yikes! Of course that’s “foreward” - that’s what typing in a hurry and putting in a link will do for your facility in spelling . . . .
Let me see here, Jesus says it is, you say it isn't. Ponder,. ponder, ponder, who to believe? He who created the universes in six consecutive 24 hour days and went up on a cross for me? Or you.
Sorry AnAmericanMother, but, I'm going with Jesus. You do the reading, I'll do the praising.
Who makes it possible for you to know Jesus's word? How do you know about the Crucifixion and Resurrection? It isn't through Tacitus or Josephus, though they mention Jesus in passing. It's through Scripture -- which was collected, reviewed, and approved by the Church, out of the hundreds of quasi-Christian "scriptures" circulating in the Mediterranean world in the century after the death of Christ.
You can't reject the Church and not reject her work on behalf of her Head. Which is the only way you know Him.
Hey ... where's the entrance ramp to this highway to heaven? Is it in Scripture, because I have not found it.
Where do you get that a day has 24 hours? That’s only on earth, and there was no earth, in the beginning, so sun or any other stars, so HOW DO YOU KNOW????
Why not do both?
Better persevere to the very end, as St. Paul wrote, or else the Lord will vomit you out, as St. John wrote, for being lukewarm and complacent.
Do you know what makes up the church of Laodicea? Do you understand the significance of being a part of the Church of Philadelphia?
Do you understand what Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:3-21?
You are kidding aren't you? If not, I will answer your question, but I do hope you are kidding and not really that ignorant of God's word.
You might start at John 3:1-21. Hard for me to understand how you could read Scripture and have missed John chapter three.
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