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Cardinal Newman: the man and his ideas
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 John Henry Newman was the most celebrated English convert to
Catholicism of the nineteenth century and is still widely revered as
one of the great Catholic scholars and theologians of all times. A
complex personality, he caused huge controversy when he left the
Anglican Church for Rome. His beatification, carried out
by Pope Benedict XVI in Birmingham on 19 September, followed the
Vatican’s recognition as a miracle of the healing of a US deacon, Jack
Sullivan, from a severe back condition. In this series of Tablet articles writers explore his legacy, teaching and close friendships.
Newman’s diffident holiness
Cardinal Newman was one of the most notable Victorians. He is not only
an historical figure, says his biographer, but a man for our time
Roderick Strange
18 September 2010
‘I solaced myself with verse-making’
Newman wrote poems – sometimes three a day – as an alternative way of
recording the thoughts he would otherwise have expressed in prose. But
the author of the grave and ghostly “Dream of Gerontius” was equally
skilled at light verse, too
Michael Glover
18 September 2010
Ideas of a modern university
The pursuit of knowledge was always at the centre of Cardinal Newman’s
ideal of higher education, a pursuit that acknowledged the importance
of connections between different disciplines. Could contemporary
academia learn from him?
Don Briel
18 September 2010
Wisdom of the future
Newman recognised that great church councils have always caused
tectonic plates to shift under the Church, often leading to acrimony.
Their work, he said, needs explaining, completing and interpreting – a
job better done by posterity than by contemporaries
Ian Ker
18 September 2010
Life lessons
The beatification of John Henry Newman on Sunday will be one the
highlights of the papal visit to Britain. Newman’s teaching,
particularly on conscience, has long had a profound influence on the
Pope’s thinking, as this presentation made on the first centenary of
the cardinal’s death made clear
Joseph Ratzinger
18 September 2010
Tracing the Brighton line
Much of the research and writing on Cardinal Newman focuses on the
priest and academic. Here, the man who now lives in the seaside town
house that was once Newman’s home recalls how it helped him discover
the thinker, the priest – and the rounded person
11 September 2010
Roger Moss
In all conscience
When Pope Benedict beatifies the great English cardinal on 19
September, what will he make of Newman’s famous after-dinner toast, ‘I
will drink to Pope by all means – still, to conscience first, and to
the Pope afterwards’?
11 September 2010
John Wilkins
Apologias for other great lives
Attention has naturally focused on the life and works of John Henry
Newman as his beatification approaches. But it leaves the resounding
contributions of the other great Victorian Catholic clerics Wiseman and
Manning in danger of being obscured
4 September 2010
Frank M. Turner
Saints and subversion
It is well known that John Henry Newman was a leading figure in the
Church of England who caused huge controversy when he became a
Catholic. So why will Anglicans be celebrating his life and work in the
year of his beatification?
31 July 2010
Nicholas Henshall
A place to map out the universe
Cardinal Newman’s The Idea of a University had a profound influence on
figures as diverse as James Joyce and Edward Said. Here Newman’s latest
biographer explains the genesis of the Idea and why it has endured
19 June 2010
John Cornwell
Illusions of morality
In a series of lectures in Dublin first published in the middle of the nineteenth century under the title The Idea of a University,
John Henry Newman examined the purpose of higher education,
highlighting at one point the dangers of the then prevalent moral
idealism. It is just as relevant today
10 April 2010
Alasdair MacIntyre
One soul, two bodies
Friendship is a preparation for a greater love, according to Cardinal
Newman, whose own relationship with his fellow priest Ambrose St John
was profound, and essential to understanding his thinking
3 April 2010
Mark Vernon
Reasons to believe
Earlier this month in his Tablet
column, Clifford Longley was critical of canonisation miracles and
cited the case of Cardinal Newman in this regard. But the spokesman for
Newman's forthcoming beatification says the cardinal believed that
miracles served the Church's mission
23 January 2010
Jack Valero
An absence, yet a presence
When work began to exhume Cardinal Newman from his grave earlier this
year, few expected that there would be nothing left of his body. But on
Sunday, relics were ‘translated’ to Birmingham Oratory during a Mass
marked by high ritual and Mozart. Those who attended expect that the
man already acknowledged as one of the inspirations of Vatican II will
surely soon be beatified
8 November 2008
John Cornwell
Wedded friendship
Spiritual same-sex friendships have been celebrated in the history of
the Church with rites that gave them a standing akin to marriage. That
is the belief of an ecclesiastical historian and honorary research
fellow of Birkbeck College in the University of London, who here
presents some of the evidence for his view.
8 August 2001
Alan Bray
Rocky road to Rome
In 1845 Newman left the Church of England for the Church of Rome. He
never subsequently doubted that he had found the truth, but it was a
painful passage. A leading ecclesiastical historian of the period,
former master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, describes Newman's complex
relationship with the Church of England.
10 March 2001
Owen Chadwick
Breaking the mould
Newman’s theological method was disconcerting in his own time, because
it was so independent. An Augustinian priest who lectures in the Irish
School of Ecumenics in Dublin explains how much was at stake in the
controversies around Newman.
3 March 2001
Gabriel Daly
Victorian ways of faith
It is 200 years this week since the birth of John Henry Newman. This is
the first of a series of articles assessing his achievement and
influence. The author of The Convert Cardinals sets the scene – the age of Queen Victoria, who died 100 years ago.
24 February 2001
David Newsome
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Podcasts
Bath priest Fr Peter Cornwell presents a series of podcasts on Cardinal John Henry Newman. Fr Cornwell is the former vicar of Newman’s old Anglican church in Oxford, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. If you are unable to open the MP3 files you can read transcripts of the podcasts.
1 Getting to know Newman (MP3)
1 Getting to know Newman (PDF)
2 Newman the pastor (MP3)
2 Newman the pastor (PDF)
3 Battered Newman (MP3)
3 Battered Newman (PDF)
4 Newman the thinker (MP3)
4 Newman the thinker (PDF)
5 Journey’s end (MP3)
5 Journey’s end (PDF)
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Other events
Newman Symposium
J. H. Newman by his Biographers
Speakers include Fr Ian Ker of Oxford University, Dr Sheridan Gilley of Durham University, Fr Michael Lang from the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and Fr Keith Beaumont of the Oratory of France, author of "Blessed John Henry Newman, the Authorised Beatification Biography"
Birmingham International Conference Centre
18 September 2010
Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
Ex Cathedra and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Jeremy Skidmore perform Edward Elgar's masterful setting of The Dream of Gerontius to mark the beatification of the work's author, Cardinal Newman.
Birmingham Town Hall
18 September 2010
To let us know about an event relating to the papal visit or the beatification, email afrymann@thetablet.co.uk .
To receive The Tablet throughout the year subscribe here
Cardinal Newman: the man and his ideas
|
John Henry Newman was the most celebrated English convert to
Catholicism of the nineteenth century and is still widely revered as
one of the great Catholic scholars and theologians of all times. A
complex personality, he caused huge controversy when he left the
Anglican Church for Rome. His beatification, carried out
by Pope Benedict XVI in Birmingham on 19 September, followed the
Vatican’s recognition as a miracle of the healing of a US deacon, Jack
Sullivan, from a severe back condition. In this series of Tablet articles writers explore his legacy, teaching and close friendships.
Newman’s diffident holiness
Cardinal Newman was one of the most notable Victorians. He is not only
an historical figure, says his biographer, but a man for our time
Roderick Strange
18 September 2010
‘I solaced myself with verse-making’
Newman wrote poems – sometimes three a day – as an alternative way of
recording the thoughts he would otherwise have expressed in prose. But
the author of the grave and ghostly “Dream of Gerontius” was equally
skilled at light verse, too
Michael Glover
18 September 2010
Ideas of a modern university
The pursuit of knowledge was always at the centre of Cardinal Newman’s
ideal of higher education, a pursuit that acknowledged the importance
of connections between different disciplines. Could contemporary
academia learn from him?
Don Briel
18 September 2010
Wisdom of the future
Newman recognised that great church councils have always caused
tectonic plates to shift under the Church, often leading to acrimony.
Their work, he said, needs explaining, completing and interpreting – a
job better done by posterity than by contemporaries
Ian Ker
18 September 2010
Life lessons
The beatification of John Henry Newman on Sunday will be one the
highlights of the papal visit to Britain. Newman’s teaching,
particularly on conscience, has long had a profound influence on the
Pope’s thinking, as this presentation made on the first centenary of
the cardinal’s death made clear
Joseph Ratzinger
18 September 2010
Tracing the Brighton line
Much of the research and writing on Cardinal Newman focuses on the
priest and academic. Here, the man who now lives in the seaside town
house that was once Newman’s home recalls how it helped him discover
the thinker, the priest – and the rounded person
11 September 2010
Roger Moss
In all conscience
When Pope Benedict beatifies the great English cardinal on 19
September, what will he make of Newman’s famous after-dinner toast, ‘I
will drink to Pope by all means – still, to conscience first, and to
the Pope afterwards’?
11 September 2010
John Wilkins
Apologias for other great lives
Attention has naturally focused on the life and works of John Henry
Newman as his beatification approaches. But it leaves the resounding
contributions of the other great Victorian Catholic clerics Wiseman and
Manning in danger of being obscured
4 September 2010
Frank M. Turner
Saints and subversion
It is well known that John Henry Newman was a leading figure in the
Church of England who caused huge controversy when he became a
Catholic. So why will Anglicans be celebrating his life and work in the
year of his beatification?
31 July 2010
Nicholas Henshall
A place to map out the universe
Cardinal Newman’s The Idea of a University had a profound influence on
figures as diverse as James Joyce and Edward Said. Here Newman’s latest
biographer explains the genesis of the Idea and why it has endured
19 June 2010
John Cornwell
Illusions of morality
In a series of lectures in Dublin first published in the middle of the nineteenth century under the title The Idea of a University,
John Henry Newman examined the purpose of higher education,
highlighting at one point the dangers of the then prevalent moral
idealism. It is just as relevant today
10 April 2010
Alasdair MacIntyre
One soul, two bodies
Friendship is a preparation for a greater love, according to Cardinal
Newman, whose own relationship with his fellow priest Ambrose St John
was profound, and essential to understanding his thinking
3 April 2010
Mark Vernon
Reasons to believe
Earlier this month in his Tablet
column, Clifford Longley was critical of canonisation miracles and
cited the case of Cardinal Newman in this regard. But the spokesman for
Newman's forthcoming beatification says the cardinal believed that
miracles served the Church's mission
23 January 2010
Jack Valero
An absence, yet a presence
When work began to exhume Cardinal Newman from his grave earlier this
year, few expected that there would be nothing left of his body. But on
Sunday, relics were ‘translated’ to Birmingham Oratory during a Mass
marked by high ritual and Mozart. Those who attended expect that the
man already acknowledged as one of the inspirations of Vatican II will
surely soon be beatified
8 November 2008
John Cornwell
Wedded friendship
Spiritual same-sex friendships have been celebrated in the history of
the Church with rites that gave them a standing akin to marriage. That
is the belief of an ecclesiastical historian and honorary research
fellow of Birkbeck College in the University of London, who here
presents some of the evidence for his view.
8 August 2001
Alan Bray
Rocky road to Rome
In 1845 Newman left the Church of England for the Church of Rome. He
never subsequently doubted that he had found the truth, but it was a
painful passage. A leading ecclesiastical historian of the period,
former master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, describes Newman's complex
relationship with the Church of England.
10 March 2001
Owen Chadwick
Breaking the mould
Newman’s theological method was disconcerting in his own time, because
it was so independent. An Augustinian priest who lectures in the Irish
School of Ecumenics in Dublin explains how much was at stake in the
controversies around Newman.
3 March 2001
Gabriel Daly
Victorian ways of faith
It is 200 years this week since the birth of John Henry Newman. This is
the first of a series of articles assessing his achievement and
influence. The author of The Convert Cardinals sets the scene – the age of Queen Victoria, who died 100 years ago.
24 February 2001
David Newsome
|
Podcasts
Bath priest Fr Peter Cornwell presents a series of podcasts on Cardinal John Henry Newman. Fr Cornwell is the former vicar of Newman’s old Anglican church in Oxford, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. If you are unable to open the MP3 files you can read transcripts of the podcasts.
1 Getting to know Newman (MP3)
1 Getting to know Newman (PDF)
2 Newman the pastor (MP3)
2 Newman the pastor (PDF)
3 Battered Newman (MP3)
3 Battered Newman (PDF)
4 Newman the thinker (MP3)
4 Newman the thinker (PDF)
5 Journey’s end (MP3)
5 Journey’s end (PDF)
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Other events
Newman Symposium
J. H. Newman by his Biographers
Speakers include Fr Ian Ker of Oxford University, Dr Sheridan Gilley of Durham University, Fr Michael Lang from the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and Fr Keith Beaumont of the Oratory of France, author of "Blessed John Henry Newman, the Authorised Beatification Biography"
Birmingham International Conference Centre
18 September 2010
Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
Ex Cathedra and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Jeremy Skidmore perform Edward Elgar's masterful setting of The Dream of Gerontius to mark the beatification of the work's author, Cardinal Newman.
Birmingham Town Hall
18 September 2010
To let us know about an event relating to the papal visit or the beatification, email afrymann@thetablet.co.uk .
To receive The Tablet throughout the year subscribe here
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In this week’s issue
When the hurt stops and the healing starts
Making markets moral
Iron and velvet
Love in a Catholic climate
Someone to talk to
A good Lent takes planning
South American surprise
Can the Church support abuse victims on its own terms?
Elena Curti
Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?
Christopher Lamb
Goodwin the scapegoat
Elena Curti
The pain of being a coeliac Catholic
Sr M, guest contributor
The Church's moral obligation to victims of clerical sexual abuse
Speeches from this week's conference in Rome
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Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh
Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...
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