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The Popes on Cardinal Newman

Guided solely by love of the truth and fidelity to Christ, [Newman] traced an itinerary, the most toilsome, but also the greatest, the most meaningful, the most conclusive, that human thought ever travelled during the last century, indeed one might say during the modern era, to arrive at the fulness of wisdom and of peace.

Pope Paul VI, Allocution on the Beatification of Dominic Barberi, 27 October 1963

John Paul II

  1. Letter on the Bicentenary of Newman’s birth (22 January 2001)
  2. Letter on Centenary of Newman’s death (18 June 1990)
  3. Message on the Centenary of Newman’s Death (27 April 1990)
  4. Letter on Centenary of Cardinalate (7 April 1979)

Paul VI

  1. Address to Newman scholars (7 April 1975)
  2. Message to Newman Congress (17 May 1970)
  3. Allocution on the Beatification of Fr. Barberi (27 October 1963)

Pius XII

  1. Letter on Centenary of Newman’s Conversion (12 April 1945)

Pius XI

  1. Extract from his encyclical on St. Augustine Ad Salutem Humani (20 Apr 1930)

Pius X

  1. Letter to Bishop of Limerick (10 March 1908)

Leo XIII

  1. The official notice (in translation) of the Pope’s intention to make Newman a Cardinal