ORATORY CONFEDERATION WELCOMES PAPAL BEATIFICATION

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Categorised as News and published Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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NEWMAN TO BE BEATIFIED BY POPE BENEDICT XVI DURING HIS UK VISIT
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The Shrine of St Philip Neri, the Chiesa Nuova, Rome

The Oratorian Confederation has welcomed the announcement of Cardinal Newman’s Beatification in September 2010. Father Edoardo Cerrato, Procurator General of the Confederation, has written a letter to all the Congregations of the Oratory, which you can read here. Father Cerrato writes:

Newman belongs to those who seek the truth through the gift of human reason but illumined by the light of faith; and the Oratory of S. Philip, that counts Newman among its brothers, is profoundly aware of the great richness that, in Newman, has been given to her …

It is my sincere wish for the whole Oratorian family that the approaching Beatification of this great Son of S. Philip Neri and master of all those who are ’seeking an informed orientation and sure guidance amid the uncertainties of the modern world’ (Pope Paul VI), will be the occasion of a deeper – and fruitful – knowledge of his thought, and of the example left by his life.