The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

In the opening paper of the Conference Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, examined Newman’s relations to other nineteenth century English thinkers, and reflected on the Anglican Newman’s developing theology of the Church. Dr Morris suggested that in Newman’s Letter to Pusey he anticipated modern ecumenical endeavour, avoiding polemic in favour of an honest analysis of doctrine and ecclesial practice.

The Holy, Just, and True was judged by sinners, and put to death.
From Meditations and Devotions (1893) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Christ showed His love in deed, not in word, and you will be touched by the thought of His cross far more by bearing it after Him, than by glowing accounts of it.
From the sermon ‘Love, the One Thing needful’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

The Pope, in a message transmitted by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarciso Bertone, expressed his “lively appreciation for this timely initiative”, and spoke of Newman as “an illustrious man of the Church and important Catholic thinker”.

All the while [Jesus Christ] was on earth, when He was conceived, when He was born, when He was tempted, on the cross, in the grave, and now at God’s right hand—all the time through, He was the Eternal and Unchangeable Word, the Son of God.
From the sermon ‘The Humiliation of the Eternal Son’ (1835) [...]

A great number of men live and die without reflecting at all upon the state of things in which they find themselves. They take things as they come, and follow their inclinations as far as they have the opportunity. They are guided mainly by pleasure and pain, not by reason, principle, or conscience; and they do not attempt to interpret this world, to determine what it means, or to reduce what they see and feel to system.

On the occasion of the Symposium ‘John Henry Newman today: logos and dialogue’, organised by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, together with the International Centre of Newman Friends, the Supreme Pontiff sends his warmest greetings, expressing his lively appreciation for this timely initiative, intended to revisit the figure and thought of an illustrious man of the Church and important Catholic thinker.

Life in this world is motion, and involves a continual process of change. Living things grow into their perfection, into their decline, into their death. No rule of art will suffice to stop the operation of this natural law, whether in the material world or in the human mind.
From A Letter Addressed to the Rev. [...]