About St. John Henry Newman

St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was an English cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A convert from Anglicanism, he resigned his teaching post at Oxford University upon his religious conversion, and as a Catholic founded what is now University College, Dublin. His major writings including the Tracts for the Times, his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua, The Idea of a University and the poem "The Dream of Gerontius."

A Benedictine Education

By |2024-03-22T17:46:46-05:00March 22nd, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Classical Learning, Education, Sainthood, St. Benedict|

Education follows the same law as the physical universe, which is sustained and carried on in dependence on certain centres of power and laws of operation. Education has its history in Christianity, and its doctors or masters in that history. A Benedictine Education, by John Henry Newman (160 pages, Cluny Media) As the physical universe [...]

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