During the Mass on the Solemnity of All Saints, also the culmination of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed Saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. At the beginning of his homily, the pope also announced that St. John Henry Newman has been named co-Patron of the Church’s educational mission alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas. Newman’s impressive spiritual and cultural stature, the Pope said, “will surely serve as an inspiration to new generations whose hearts thirst for the infinite, and who, through research and knowledge, are willing to undertake that journey which, as the ancients said, takes us per aspera ad astra, through difficulties to the stars.”
