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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

St. John Henry Newman shook the English establishment when he crossed the Tiber. But as he said, “We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.” A hundred and eighty years later, that choice has led to his being named a Doctor of the Church. From the archive, authors reflect on Newman.

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NOVEMBER 2019 ● BY JULIA YOST

A PAPER CHURCH ([link removed])

Newman eventually saw that not every problem in ecclesiology can be solved by squinting hard at documents.

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OCTOBER 2015 ● BY CARL R. TRUEMAN

NEWMAN FOR PROTESTANTS ([link removed])

He spoke against the triumph of the aesthetic and the therapeutic.

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MAY 2005 ● BY GEORGE CARDINAL PELL

THE INCONVENIENT CONSCIENCE ([link removed])
For Newman, conscience is a hard, objective thing—a challenge to self and a call to conversion.

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