The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

The world is passing like a shadow; the day of Christ is hastening on.
From the sermon ‘Submission to Church Authority’ (1829) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

What were the actual circumstances of His coming? His Mother is a poor woman; she comes to Bethlehem to be taxed, travelling, when her choice would have been to remain at home. She finds there [...]

Such, then, is the law of Christ’s kingdom, such the paradox which is seen in its history. It belongs to the poor in spirit; it belongs to the persecuted; it is [...]

The distinctness with which the conscience of a child tells him the difference between right and wrong should also be mentioned. As persons advance in life, and yield to the temptations which come upon [...]

Here’s our calendar for January. 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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Let the breathings of my soul be with Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Let me live in obscurity, out of the world and the world’s thought, with them. Let me look to them in [...]

Had St. Stephen shrunk from the trial put upon him, and recanted to save his life, no one can estimate the consequences of such a defection. Perhaps (humanly [...]

This is a day of joy: it is good to be joyful—it is wrong to be otherwise. For one day we may put off the burden of our polluted consciences, and rejoice in the perfections [...]