Vatican clears way for canonization of Blessed Cardinal Newman (Catholic Caucus)

America Magazine ^ | Feb. 13, 2019 | Cindy Wooden

[Hieronymus]

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman, the English cardinal, clearing the way for his canonization.

The Vatican announced Feb. 13 that Pope Francis had signed the decree the day before.

Also Feb. 12, he formally recognized that the late Hungarian Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, jailed and exiled by the communists, had lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way; the recognition is an early step in the sainthood process.

In the sainthood cause of Blessed Newman, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth had reported in November that the proposed miracle involved a young law graduate from the Archdiocese of Chicago who faced life-threatening complications during her pregnancy but suddenly recovered when she prayed to the English cardinal for help.

Blessed Newman was born in London in 1801 and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1925. He was a leader in the Oxford Movement in the 1830s, which emphasized the Catholic roots of Anglicanism.

After a succession of clashes with Anglican bishops made him a virtual outcast from the Church of England, he joined the Catholic Church at the age of 44 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1846. Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal in 1879 while respecting his wishes not to be ordained a bishop.

A theologian and poet, he died in 1890 and his sainthood cause was opened in 1958. Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in Birmingham, England, in 2010.

The date for his canonization will be announced after Pope Francis holds a meeting of cardinals to formalize their support for declaring Blessed Newman a saint.

Arrested by the communists in 1948 on charges of treason, Cardinal Mindszenty was tortured into confessing. He was sentenced to life in prison.

The sainthood cause of Cardinal Mindszenty, who led the Archdiocese of Esztergom, Hungary's primatial see, is in its initial stages. The decree of "heroic virtues" means he can be called "venerable."

He was born March 29, 1892, in what was Austro-Hungary and was ordained to the priesthood in 1915, named archbishop in 1945 and a cardinal in 1946.

Arrested by the communists in 1948 on charges of treason, Cardinal Mindszenty was tortured into confessing. He was sentenced to life in prison.

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he was released, but when Soviet forces invaded Hungary to restore the communist government, he took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. He spent more than 15 years there.

After negotiations with St. Paul VI, the cardinal was allowed to leave Hungary in 1971. He died in exile in Austria in 1975. Once democracy was restored, his body was reburied in Hungary in 1991.

[Hieronymus]

‘I shall drink—to the Pope, if you please,—still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.’--soon-to-be-St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

Newman has potential. https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/02/john-henry-newman-saint-i-have-resisted.html#more

Also of note, Cardinal Mindszenty just made venerable.

Not as bad a day as one might think. Still, when they canonize Origen I hope they raise Tertullian to the glories of the altar at the same time.

[Hieronymus]

Ping

I figured I might as well take it from America. It does seem worthy of a thread. That said, I’m leaving my computer for 3 or so hours. Enjoy.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I am pleased with Newman for a number of reasons; he had a gift for clear thinking and “nursed” many conversions to the Catholic Faith. He exemplified something we need so badly today: courage.

[sushiman]

A new book claims that 80% of Vatican priests are gay .

[Jedediah]

New book ahh but the good book says not to repeat slander

[Slyfox]

Blessed Newman was born in London in 1801 and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1925.

Slight typo there.

[piusv]

The great irony—and Newman always understood irony—is that he has been invoked as the “absent Father” of that Council with respect to the role of the laity in the Church, religious freedom, and collegiality. Those who invoke him in this way have obviously never read much Newman, for he would understand that the Church today is in the parlous state in which she finds herself precisely because those to whom her ministry has been entrusted have swallowed and digested that noxious weed decried by Newman and are patting their stomachs in self-congratulation, having succumbed to that “liberalism in religion” whose heart is what Newman called the “anti-dogmatic principle”.

I wouldn't call it irony. I would call it calculation.

Newman is as much an "absent Father" of the Council as Paul VI and JPII are saints. Just another way to try to canonize "the Council".

[freedumb2003]

It is so much easier to be venerated these days.

Now bac in the 16th Century when it took decades. THOSE were saints!!

[Campion]

He was a late vocation. ;-)

[Hieronymus]

And baptized a Mormon 10 years after that!

[Hieronymus]

Now back in the 16th Century when it took decades. THOSE
were saints!!

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In the last third of the 16th Century no one was Canonized—no one was canonized from before the close of Trent until 1622, when Sts. Philip Neri, Ignatius, Francis Xavier, Theresa of Avila, and Isidore the Farmer were done in a single ceremony.

What a class!

[Slyfox]

LOL