The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

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Newman On …

1. Education
   In default of a recognized term, I have called the perfection or virtue of the intellect by the name of philosophy…
2. Sin and Evil
   To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts…
3. Reason and Faith
   Here, then, are two processes, distinct from each other,—the original process of reasoning, and next, the process of investigating our reasonings. All men reason…
4. Conscience and Conversion
   Conscience is not a long-sighted selfishness, nor a desire to be consistent with oneself; but it is a messenger from Him…
5. Christian Prayer
   This habit of prayer then, recurrent prayer, morning, noon, and night, is one discriminating point in Scripture…
6. God – The Holy Trinity
   According to the teaching of Monotheism, God is an Individual, Self-dependent, All-perfect, Unchangeable Being; intelligent, living, personal, and present…
7. Our Lord Jesus Christ
   Before He came on earth, He had but the perfections of God, but afterwards He had also the virtues of a creature, such as faith, meekness, self-denial…
8. The Holy Spirit
   This is to be justified, to receive the Divine Presence within us, and be made a Temple of the Holy Ghost…
9. The Catholic Church
   This then is the special glory of the Christian Church, that its members do not depend merely on what is visible, they are not mere stones of a building…
10. The Mass and the Sacraments
    In truth, our Merciful Saviour has done much more for us than reveal the wonderful doctrines of the Gospel; He has enabled us to apply them…
11. The Pope
    Did the Pope speak against Conscience in the true sense of the word, he would commit a suicidal act. He would be cutting the ground from under his feet….
12. Development and Doctrine
    Again, if Christianity be an universal religion, suited not simply to one locality or period, but to all times and places, it cannot but vary in its relations and dealings towards the world around it, that is, it will develop…
13. Protestantism and Ecumenism
    The special peril of the time before us is the spread of that plague of infidelity, that the Apostles and our Lord Himself have predicted as the worst calamity of the last times of the Church…
14. Chastity
    It is the boast of the Catholic Religion, that it has the gift of making the young heart chaste; …
15. Heaven – the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints
    But it required to live in Rome to understand what [St Philip Neri’s] influence really was. Nothing was too high for him, nothing too low. He taught poor begging women…