Cardinal John Henry Newman, born in 1801 in the City of London, was a complex man who left a spiritual legacy unrivalled to this day.
As well as the works for which he is best known — Apologia pro Vita Sua, and hymns such as Lead, Kindly Light — he also wrote 20,000 letters, dozens of diaries and 40 other books.
Newman, a Church of England priest, converted to Catholicism in 1845, having already delivered an Anglo-Catholic “revolution” in the Anglican Church: he reintroduced Masses, high ritual and ornate decoration.
Pope Benedict XVI, himself an eminent theologian, is among those who have studied his work in depth.
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It's ironic that he was so critical of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility as promulgated in 1870.
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“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.“ - Chuang Tzu
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And he was one of Darwins earliest Christian defenders.
__________________ ""Wisdom enters through love, silence, and mortification. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others." "Look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for all." St. John of the Cross, OCD. "Any fundamentalism that claims to know precisely God's will is not a viable church structure within God's evolving creation, which brings forth ever greater freedom." "The price for the ability to love God in freedom, the only way love is possible, is the enormous amount of suffering we find in creation."
Karl Schmitz Moorman, German Catholic biologist. "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world."
from the Trisagion and the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.“ - Chuang Tzu
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