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Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: 8 Ways St. John Henry Newman Is the Doctor of the Church We Need Now – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: 8 Ways St. John Henry Newman Is the Doctor of the Church We Need Now

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Cardinal John Henry Newman. (photo: Public Domain)

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register, July 31, 2025

Father Raymond J. de Souza is the founding editor of Convivium magazine.

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV’s first selection for doctor of the Church offers a model of courage and clarity in our time of confusion.

Elected to the papacy in 1878 after the long, defensive years of Blessed Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII advised paying close attention to his first cardinals. Included among them would be St. John Henry Newman, the towering intellectual convert who, while accepting the truth of Vatican I’s declaration of papal infallibility, thought it was not opportune to do so.

Cardinal Newman preferred engagement with modernity rather than estrangement from it. No other figure better represented the new approach of Leo XIII, a turn away from the defensive posture of Tridentine Catholicism toward evangelization of the new liberal order. …

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