St. John Henry Newman

Saint John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church (21.02.1801 – 11.03.1890). Profile pic by @Raul_Berzosa.

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

The sign of a great Doctor of the Church is that he teaches not only through his thought and speech, but also with his life … If this is so, then NEWMAN BELONGS TO THE GREAT DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH because he both touches our hearts and enlightens our thinking.

– Joseph Ratzinger

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Even the whole earth is but a small spot compared to the expanse of heaven. Though we had possessed it all [...], it is nothing to the kingdom of heaven.

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

BREAKING | Pope Leo XIV will proclaim his first Doctor of the Church: St. John Henry Newman. On July 31, 2025, Pope Leo XIV received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, confirming the positive opinion of the Dicastery's Plenary Session: St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Universal Church.

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Vatican News - Six years ago, Pope Francis canonized English cardinal John Henry Newman. Now, he will join the other 37 men and women who have received the title of Doctor of the Church as Pope Leo confirmed the decision in a meeting with the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints this morning.

According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, a Doctor of the Church is a person who significantly “advanced the knowledge of God through their writing on theology, spirituality, mysticism, or through their defense of the faith in the face of heresy and schism.”

St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Jerome, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux are among the list of Doctors.

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

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[Alejandro Sada @alejandrosada]

¿Cómo hubiera sido escuchar a Newman uno de sus increíbles sermones? Imaginémoslo diciendo estas palabras:

“I have lost friends, I have lost the world, but I have gained Him […]. I have lost the perishable, and gained the Infinite; I have lost time, and I have gained eternity.”

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

Unless a man is able to say to himself, as in the Presence of God, that he must not, and dare not, act upon the Papal injunction, he is bound to obey it, and would commit a great sin in disobeying it.

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In him who is faithful to his own divinely implanted nature, the faint light of Truth dawns continually brighter.

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead Thou me on!

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

I have lost friends, I have lost the world, but I have gained Him, who gives in Himself houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands a hundred-fold; I have lost the perishable, and gained the Infinite; I have lost time, and I have gained eternity.

[St. John Henry Newman @JHNewman]

Ward thinks I hold that moral obligation is, because there is a God. But I hold just the reverse, viz. there is a God, because there is a moral obligation. I have a certain feeling on my mind, which I call conscience. I feel it involves the idea of one who sees my heart.

[Silere non possum @silerenonpossum]

On 11 August 1890 Saint John Henry Newman, C.O. died.

At the Beatification Mass, the Holy Father Benedict XVI recalled a phrase of the Oratorian cardinal: “I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it” (The Present Position of Catholics in England, IX, 390).

[The Cardinal Newman Society @Newman_Society]

St. John Henry Newman described education as cultivation of the “philosophical habit of mind."

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[Emese Balog ن @EmeseZsBalog]

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ‘Go down again — I dwell among the people.’”
— John Henry Newman

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We account this a great defect of mind, which must be overcome.

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Confused, inaccurate knowledge is no knowledge. It is the very fault we find with youths under education that they use words without meaning, that they are wanting in precision and distincness, that they are ignorant what they know and what they do not know.

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…not to be used as a necessary instrument in the conversion of the ungodly, or for the satisfaction of reasoners of this world, but to be unfolded to the docile and obedient.

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The sacred doctrine of the Cross is not one to be talked of, but to be lived upon; not to be put forth irreverently, but to be adored secretly…

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Christ has blessed fasting as a means of grace, in that He has fasted; and fasting is only acceptable when it is done for His sake. Penitence is mere formality, or mere remorse, unless done in love.