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By Joseph Pearce, Catholic Exchange, Nov. 3, 2025
Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as G.K. Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare. His book, Race with the Devil, chronicles his conversion from racial hatred to Catholicism. He is also the Director of the Center for Faith & Culture, Writer-in-Residence at Aquinas College in Nashville, as well as the Editor of St. Austin Review.
Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from Joseph Pearce’s preface to The Quotable Newman by Dave Armstrong (Sophia Institute Press, 2012).
During St. John Henry Newman’s long and eventful life, new ideas emerged, causing seismic shifts in the way modern man perceived himself. Karl Marx adapted the ideas of Hegel in the service of revolutionary politics, thereby unleashing an ideology that would claim the lives of tens of millions of people in the following century. Charles Darwin proposed the evolution of species from primitive beginnings, thereby initiating the notion of biological progressivism and the chronological snobbery that is its consequence. Friedrich Nietzsche declared brazenly that God was dead, thereby deifying man. Sigmund Freud supplanted the conscious will with subconscious complexes, thereby supplanting rational moral choices with irrational psychological urges. Revolutions swept across Europe as nationalism and socialism threatened the old order, sowing the seeds of National Socialism and its international communist Big Brother. The British Empire swept across the world, laying the foundations of globalism. It was a time of change and uncertainty and yet, at the same time and as the life of Newman testifies, it was also a time of religious revival and resurgent traditionalism. …..
Newman’s own place within the Catholic Revival is paramount. He is the very Father of the Revival itself. ….
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