The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

In this extract from the sermon ‘St. Paul’s Conversion Viewed in reference to His Office’ (1831), Newman draws attention to the connection between the dying prayer of St. Stephen and the conversion of the ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’:
We cannot well forget the manner of [St. Paul’s] conversion. He was journeying to Damascus with authority from [...]

Grace has vanquished nature; that is the whole history of the Saints. Salutary thought for those who are tempted to pride themselves in what they do, and what they are; wonderful news for those who sorrowfully recognise in their hearts the vast difference that exists between them and the Saints.
From the sermon ‘Men, not Angels, [...]

We’re pleased to report on a new book by Gianni Valente, published in Italian, Ratzinger Professore: Gli anni dello studio e dell’insegnamento nel ricordo dei colleghi e degli allievi (1946-1977) (Milan: Edizioni San Paolo, s.r.l., 2008) [‘Ratzinger the Professor: the years of study and teaching as recalled by his colleagues and students’].
This book, by an [...]

I feel myself justified in saying either Christianity is from God, or a revelation has not yet been given to us.
From An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) Click here for the Table of Contents (leaves site)

The idea of the Blessed Virgin [Mary] was as it were magnified in the Church of Rome as time went on,—but so were all the Christian ideas; as that of the Blessed Eucharist.
From the Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) Click here for the Table of Contents (leaves site)

If there be on earth a visible image of heaven, it is in the Church collected together in one place.
From the sermon ‘Order, the Witness and Instrument of Unity’ (1853) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Christianity has not been spread, as other systems, in an isolated manner, or by books; but from a centre, by regularly formed bodies, descendants of the three thousand, who, after St Peter’s preaching on the day of Pentecost, joined themselves to the Apostles’ doctrine and fellowship.
From the sermon ‘The Unity of the Church’ (1829) Click [...]

The one Church was in the days of the Fathers [the Early Church], in matter of fact, in a state of perfect intercommunion; it is not then at all wonderful, rather it could not be otherwise, especially as such a state was a fulfilment of Divine prophecy, that they should appeal to that fact as [...]