Sunday, April 26, 2009

Cardinal Newman

father Z notes that British Cardinal Newman is to be beatified.

Newman's theological writings are above my IQ, but they note that Newman's writings on conscience inspired the White Rose movement (against the Nazis)...LINK

And Newman's link with the Birmingham Oratory, which encouraged an "English" Catholicism (as opposed to the Irish or continental approach) is also something that bore good fruit.
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Newman's most famous poem is a favorite Protestant Hymn...here it is sung by the Mormon Tabernacle choir:

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