By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - St. John Henry Newman was once called “the most dangerous man in England” by the papal chamberlain, Fr. George Talbot, primarily because of the way Newman engaged the laity in supporting and even managing Catholic schools. Indeed Newman had to struggle in many of his educational projects because of a constant tension between lay involvement (which of course, is where the money was to come from) and the traditional desire of the English clergy to control any and all schools that claimed to have Catholic purposes or to serve Catholics.