Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman

Our visible world speaks to us of an unseen world, a spiritual world behind a veil, so to speak, with its Creator, angels, and saints.

In praying for God's kingdom to come, we face our fear of judgment and anticipate the mercy God gives so abundantly.

  John Henry Newman, in his ‘Fragment of a Life of St Philip’, has left us an unexpected (and often overlooked) hermeneutic key to unlock the nature of holiness in both canonized saints and those in the making – including with our benefit and hindsight – himself. …a saint’s life may often have in it […]

From the disciples' experience of Pentecost we can learn to "profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies."

The flame of love that Christians possess comes from the Holy Spirit who was sent into the world after the Ascension of our Lord.

From an early age, Newman recognized the glory of God in Creation…

We all know how to fast. Here's some advice on feasting.

According to Newman, Love ... is the seed of holiness, and grows into all excellences, not indeed destroying their peculiarities, but making them what they are.

St. John Henry Newman taught that faith is an act of reason enlightened by grace, and invited people to pray for those who do not believe in Christ.

No bad news can ruin us more than the Good News can save us.

St John Henry Newman describes our loved ones as “additional friends in Heaven” whose help we receive because the risen Christ brings them to wherever we are.

Lent offers us an opportunity to grow in the desire to become more like Christ.

For Newman, prayer is conversation with God, but it is a divine conversation which prepares us for heaven.

We must have an active faith that can see through – not over, or around or in spite of our difficulties – to our final home.

In the poem Sleeplessness, John Henry Newman writes about trusting in God, and putting aside our pride and self reliance.

Christmas comes with sorrows and joys, but especially with great joy from the birth of Our Savior.

Knowing the difference between forgiveness and pardon will give us even greater resolve to change and atone for past sins.

In this time of Advent, we should be watchmen of the kind who gaze toward heaven, waiting for Our Lord.

St. John Henry reflects on the uniqueness of the soul of each human created by God, and on doctrine of judgment after death.

The hope of heaven is in looking.

John Henry Newman reminds us that God gives us angels not only to protect us from evil but to guide us to heaven.

John Henry Newman warns against the danger of self-righteousness, and its converse: shunning religious practices that might lead to self-conceit.

God requires much from us; don't shrink back, but go on with the courage of one who knows "If God be for me, who can be against me?"

The world God made has a natural law of cause and effect built into it. One act of love really benefits the whole of creation, and one sin harms the same whole. On the individual level, our personal sins, as well as our acts of love, mold our...

Unlike Balaam, our obedience to God should be borne out of the desire to not offend a Good Father, but to please Him out of love.

Obedience to God should not be merely dutiful. John H. Newman explains that this is one of the lessons we can learn from the history of Balaam.

“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

The joy of Easter will make us bold witnesses to the miracle of God’s forgiveness, but love will spur us to learn more about the truth and to exhaust every means of becoming an effective evangelist.

The best of this world is but a shadow of things to come.

Are your passions leading you astray? Prayer and praise can bring you back.

Newman warned his Anglican bretheren of liberalism, taking the brighter side of the Gospel and neglecting the darker view of man's condition.

John Henry Newman suggest that we think of the worship of God foremost as a privilege even though it is a duty.

Why do Catholics baptize infants?

In a short poem titled "Our Future," St. John Henry Newman tells us how we should approach the future: by faith, which is impossible without grace.

In the Verses Christmas without Christ, John Henry Newman reminds that Christ is the only source of true joy.

When we live in the Spirit, we are able to put the ordinary circumstances of our days in their proper context.

We repeat the mystery of the Incarnation every Sunday at Mass, but do we let ourselves be moved by it?

Newman explains how the Gospel sheds light upon human suffering, teaching us that Christ turned punishment into a privilege, even bodily pain.

Newman explains King Jeroboam's disobedience and idolatry, and invites the Church to true worship, and a patient trusting in the Holy Spirit.

Saul had many gifts, but lacked the one necessary thing: fear of God. We also need it if we want to maintain our peace and trust in God.