Newman’s critique of Victorian scientism now speaks with startling clarity to an age convinced that reason alone is enough. The post St. John Henry Newman and the gorilla appeared first on The Catholic Thing. Source link
As your teeth pass through the chocolate shell and reach the gooey “yolk” of a Cadbury Creme Egg on any given Easter, realize that you have John Henry Newman to thank for your confectionary celebration of the Resurrection. …
“Our foreign-born citizens must permit us to say that they have been imprudent and have committed some serious mistakes,” so writes an esteemed Catholic social philosopher about the immigration question. “It is wrong to claim as a natural right…
St. John Henry Newman, proclaimed a doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV in November 2025, has been added to the General Roman Calendar, establishing his optional memorial on Oct. 9. Until now, Newman’s liturgical celebration was largely limited…
Jonah McKeown, National Catholic Register Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Catholic chaplains say unexpectedly large numbers of students at universities across the country – including many secular institutions – are expressing interest in the Catholic…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:36 — 44.7MB)Subscribe: Android | | More Senior Editor Alex Newman and contributor Andrew Muller of The New American join us from Belém, Brazil…
From November 15–21, Alex Newman and Andrew Muller will report from Belém, Brazil, bringing you inside access to the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). Expect daily dispatches, interviews,…
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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLq8bPRg-o Robert Royal reports from St. Peter’s Square on the historic day Pope Leo declares St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Church. Amid the celebrations on All Saints’ Day, Royal reflects on…
On Monday, St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo. It was Newman’s epistolary exchange with his brother Charles that first set the saint on the road to the composition of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of…
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