
Category: History
Letters from a Scientist: Newman’s Correspondence ...
By Elizabeth Huddleston | Feb 11, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purce...
By Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 19, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Fr. John Lingard (1771-1851): Between Enlightened ...
By Shaun Blanchard | Jan 8, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
Newman and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius...
By Joanna Bullivant | Nov 2, 2020 | History, Newman Today, Theology | 0
“Lead, Kindly Light”: Trusting God in ...
By Ryan Marr | Mar 30, 2020 | History, Newman Today | 0
Newman’s University Journal and Its Significance
by Eamon Naughton | Feb 17, 2021 | Education, History | 0
The journal is perhaps one of Newman’s most practical texts on education due to the intimate voice that Newman uses to describe the difficulties and particularities of founding a university.
Read MoreLetters from a Scientist: Newman’s Correspondence with St. George Jackson Mivart
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Feb 11, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
While the unravelling of Mivart’s reputation among the Catholic leadership primarily occurred after Newman’s death in 1890, a correspondence between Newman and Mivart is housed in the NINS Digital Collections.
Read MoreNewman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 19, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.
Read MoreFr. John Lingard (1771-1851): Between Enlightened Catholicism and the Newmanian Second Spring
by Shaun Blanchard | Jan 8, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
This essay will introduce readers to Lingard, one of the major intellectual lights of the English Catholic community when Newman joined it in 1845 at Littlemore.
Read MoreNewman and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
by Joanna Bullivant | Nov 2, 2020 | History, Newman Today, Theology | 0
Composed in 1900, a decade after the Cardinal’s death, Elgar’s Gerontius is not a collaboration but a new interpretation. What, then, did Newman’s poem mean to Elgar, and how did the composer articulate Newman’s vision musically?
Read More“Lead, Kindly Light”: Trusting God in the Midst of a Pandemic
by Ryan Marr | Mar 30, 2020 | History, Newman Today | 0
One of the most important turning points in John Henry Newman’s life involved contracting an illness (probably typhoid fever) while on a trip to Sicily in 1833. Newman was accompanied on the trip by his best friend, Hurrell Froude, and Froude’s father, Robert.
Read MoreNewman as Complex and Influential: A Review of Eamon Duffy’s “John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History”
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Feb 18, 2020 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Eamon Duffy’s recently published, John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History, provides a concise and well-articulated introduction to who Newman was and who Newman was perceived to be in scholarship.
Read MoreWindow into the Heart of a Saint: A Review of Michael Collins’s Newman: A Short Biography
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 27, 2020 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Fr. Michael Collins, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin and graduate of University College of Dublin, which developed from John Henry Newman’s Catholic University, has composed an excellent short introduction to the life of John Henry Newman.
Read MoreNewman’s Visit to Rome in 1833: Part V
by Fr. Joseph Elamparayil | Dec 6, 2019 | History | 0
Newman was not a mere tourist or pilgrim during his Mediterranean voyage, rather he was a curious Anglican looking for an “enlargement of mind” and benefit of health. In fact, by tracing the footsteps of the apostles, fathers, and the great saints of Christianity, he sought a personal ecclesial enlargement.
Read MoreNewman’s Visit to Rome in 1833: Part IV
by Fr. Joseph Elamparayil | Dec 4, 2019 | History | 0
Newman was not mere tourist or pilgrim during his Mediterranean voyage, rather he was a curious Anglican looking for an “enlargement of mind” and benefit of health. In fact he was looking for a personal ecclesial enlargement by tracing the footsteps of the Apostles, Fathers, and the great Saints of Christianity.
Read MoreNewman’s Visit to Rome in 1833: Part III
by Fr. Joseph Elamparayil | Dec 3, 2019 | History | 0
Newman was interested in the events happening back home and added that the church in England might console herself with the knowledge of having partners in misfortune in Sicily and Italy. Years later, in his Apologia, he recalled what he truly felt: “England was in my thoughts solely, and the news from England came rarely and imperfectly.
Read MoreNewman’s Visit to Rome in 1833: Part II
by Fr. Joseph Elamparayil | Oct 8, 2019 | History | 0
In a letter to his mother, Newman not only described how the Mediterranean was the seat of the most celebrated empires and events, but also how it had become the center of the lives of the church fathers.
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