The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

The body of the faithful is one of the witnesses to the fact of the tradition of revealed doctrine.
From ‘On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine’ (1859) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

There have been ages of the world, in which men have thought too much of Angels, and paid them excessive honour; honoured them so perversely as to forget the supreme worship due to Almighty God. This is the sin of a dark age. But the sin of what is called an educated age, such as [...]

The matter of revelation is not a mere collection of truths, not a philosophical view, not a religious sentiment or spirit, not a special morality,—poured out upon mankind as a stream might pour itself into the sea, mixing with the world’s thought, modifying, purifying, invigorating it;—but an authoritative teaching, which bears witness to itself and [...]

We’re delighted to publish a new interview with Sister Mary Dechant F.S.O., custodian of ‘The College’ at Littlemore near Oxford, as the anniversary approaches of John Henry Newman’s reception there into the Catholic Church on 9 October 1845.

Let us be far more set upon alluring souls into the right way than on forbidding them the wrong.
From the sermon ‘The Fellowship of the Apostles’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Though Faith is the characteristic of the Gospel, and Faith is the simple lifting of the mind to the Unseen God, without conscious reasoning or formal argument, still the mind may be allowably, nay, religiously engaged, in reflecting upon its own Faith; investigating the grounds and the Object of it, bringing it out into words, [...]

In an early sermon, preached in 1825, Newman preached on the text from Psalm 18 (19) found in this Sunday’s readings: ‘who can detect all his errors? From hidden faults acquit me.’ According to Newman, we can understand and penetrate the Christian faith only if we know ourselves. How can we understand what salvation is, [...]

Liberty of thought is in itself a good; but it gives an opening to false liberty. Now by Liberalism I mean false liberty of thought, or the exercise of thought upon matters, in which, from the constitution of the human mind, thought cannot be brought to any successful issue, and therefore is out of place.
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