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Orestes Brownson is not a credible critic of John Henry Newman – here’s why
"We are supposed to conclude that anyone so attacked by such an apparent pillar of orthodoxy must have been in the wrong."
John Henry Newman, Anti-Ecumenist
"Catholics and Protestants, as bodies, hold nothing in common in religion, however they may seem to do so." Image: Newman kneeling before Fr Dominic Barberi, who received him into the Church in Littlemore in 1845. From the parish of Littlemore. Editors' Notes What follows is an extract from the fifth of Newman’s series of discourses …
John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part III
"Nothing is easier than to use the word, and mean nothing by it." Image: Bust of Newman at Trinity College, Oxford where he was an undergraduate, and where one of our editors lived for a term. Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes This is the third part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John …
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John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part II
"Faith is an intellectual act, its object truth, and its result knowledge." Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes This is the second part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University, in which he considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of …
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John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part I
"It is very plain, that a Divine Being and a University so circumstanced cannot co-exist." Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors' Notes In Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of his The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of theology from university – …
The Kingdom of God – Christ is Risen!” – meditation for Easter from Cardinal Newman
"Teach me, like Mary, to sit at Thy feet, and to hear Thy word." Image: Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, Wiki Commons, (source). 1. MY Lord Jesus, how wonderful were those conversations which Thou didst hold from time to time with Thy disciples after Thy resurrection. When Thou wentest with two of them to Emmaus, Thou didst explain …
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“It Is Consummated” – meditation for Holy Saturday from Cardinal Newman
"It is over now, O Lord, as with Thy sufferings, so with our humiliations." Image: "Jesus is Placed in the Tomb", Cuypershuis, Wiki Commons, (source) 1. IT is over now, O Lord, as with Thy sufferings, so with our humiliations. We have followed Thee from Thy fasting in the wilderness till Thy death on the Cross. For forty …
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The Bodily Sufferings of Our Lord – meditation for Good Friday from Cardinal Newman
"He gave the word and His heart broke." Image: El Greco, Jesus Carrying the Cross, (source) 1. His bodily pains were greater than those of any martyr, because He willed them to be greater. All pain of body depends, as to be felt at all, so to be felt in this or that degree, on the …
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Our Lord Refuses Sympathy – meditation for Spy Wednesday from Cardinal Newman
"He trod the winepress alone." 1. SYMPATHY may be called an eternal law, for it is signified or rather transcendentally and archetypically fulfilled in the ineffable mutual love of the Divine Trinity. God, though infinitely One, has ever been Three. He ever has rejoiced in His Son and His Spirit, and they in Him—and thus through …
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