Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman

For Newman, our body's destiny is revealed through the Resurrection.

“Give your hearts to Him, and you will for yourselves solve the difficulty, how Christians can be sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.”

As if God becoming man were not privation enough, Jesus in his humanity is not ashamed to undergo even more severe trials.

St. John Henry Newman and G.K. Chesterton give us words to live by and to comfort us at the loss of friends and family.

John Henry Newman shows us the accumulated weight of a sinful nature that needs daily cleansing.

John Henry Newman urges us to act with true Christian obedience, with a princely heart of innocence.

war and sport offer opportunities for virtue and even inspire it, but we all need leaders to model and teach it.

For St. John Henry for Newman, music was a key component of a complete education that trains the mind and soul to apprehend beauty, harmony, and, ultimately, divine truth.

For Newman, teaching was not simply offering assignments and grading work, but was rather a pastoral role.

Newman’s entire life and indeed, his entire literary output, is built on the primacy of love, friendship with Christ.

Reflecting on the Incarnation, the mystery of God’s love in Christ, we are moved to empathy and compassion for every person.

Our Catholic educational aspirations should not slight the spiritual formation in the quest for academic prestige or professional preparation.

St. John Henry Newman understood just how important a woman’s role is in the education of children, both for their hearts and their souls.

Those of us who are husbands and fathers can confirm what on the other hand we learn from common sense: Parents are the primary educators of their children.

Newman’s vision for a school or a university while each different was essentially the same: the formation of men, mind, body, and soul.

Pope Leo XIV invites us to be like St. John Henry Newman, cartographers providing new paths of hope for the education of others.

In St. John Henry Newman we truly have a doctor of the faith and a trustworthy friend.

It might seem like our coming to Christ would make life much smoother and easier, but this is seldom true. Even the disciples thought that Our Lord would set up a political kingdom that would finally make things right. They had no idea that He and they were progressing toward martyrdom. Christ does not offer […]

The saints are the friends of God, and devotion to them brings us into deeper friendship with God.

The reality of linguistic change in the early Church’s teaching forced Newman to wrestle with the issue of development of doctrine.

Like John Henry Newman at Oxford, Charlie Kirk called Christians to take their faith seriously and to get involved in the important matters surrounding them.

Freedom is not a problem; it is a gift of God. In giving us freedom, God gave us the ability to love. To know how to love, He gave us conscience, that voice of God that draws man toward God, according to Newman. But conscience, like a muscle, is not fully formed at birth. It must be sculpted and developed into maturity.

St. John Henry Newman warns that this first natural inclination towards God can either be nurtured and tended or it can be stifled.