St John Henry Newman knew that the Catholic Church was the Church of the earliest Christians, writes Mike Aquilina At the heart of St John Henry Newman’s conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism was his study of the early Christians, the fathers of the Church. As an Anglican clergyman, he believed that they held the answer…
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Newman in his own words
John Henry Newman: A Portrait in Letters edited by Roderick Strange (Oxford University Press, £30.00) Over the centuries biography has changed. When James Boswell published in 1791 his landmark life of Dr Samuel Johnson, he revealed that he had adapted the new method of Rev. William Mason in his life of Gray, in allowing the…