The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Kings have descended from their thrones, bishops have given up their rank and influence, the learned have given up their pride of intellect, to become poor monks … to rise and pray while others slept, to mortify the tongue with silence and the limbs with toil, and to avow an unconditional obedience to another.

Here’s our calendar for November. Why not download it to have as the wallpaper on your desktop? Each month there is a different picture, a calendar with the days and dates, and a quotation from Newman’s writings. Brighten up your desktop, and remember the Cause at the same time!
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A people’s religion is ever a corrupt religion, in spite of the provisions of Holy Church. If she is to be Catholic, you must admit within her net fish of every [...]

Whatever our Lord said or did upon earth was strictly and literally the word and deed of God Himself.
From the sermon ‘The Humiliation of the Eternal Son’ (1835) Click here for the full text (leaves [...]

We must believe something; the difference between religious men and others is, that the latter trust this world, the former the world unseen.
From the sermon ‘Faith and Experience’ (1838) Click here for the full text [...]

It is the present fashion to call Zeal by the name of intolerance, and to account intolerance the chief of sins; that is, any earnestness for one opinion above another concerning God’s nature, will, and dealings with man,—or, in other words, any earnestness for the Faith once delivered to the Saints, any earnestness for Revelation [...]

The Church of England has been the instrument of Providence in conferring great benefits on me.
From the Apologia pro Vita Sua (1865 Edition) Click here for the full text leaves site

It is surely not true that benevolence is the only, or the chief, principle of our moral nature. To say nothing of the notion of duty to an Unseen Governor, implied in the very [...]