St. John Henry Newman recognized that the primary purpose of a university is the pursuit of truth, not perpetual political argument By Thomas S. Hibbs, President, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA John Henry Newman, whom the Catholic Church officially declared a saint in October, is a model of sanctity and of the ways in which [...]
“A University Training Is the Great Ordinary Means to a Great but Ordinary End” By Stephen D. Minnis President, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas, USA St. John Henry Newman is on our minds a lot at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. We have a Newman Residence Hall named after him, and residents from that dorm pride themselves [...]
The University of John Paul the Great in California Seeks to Fuse Newman’s Core Philosophy With the Creative Arts to Form Christian Disciples By Derry Connolly President, John Paul the Great Catholic University, San Diego, California Saint John Henry Newman arrived in Dublin in 1851 shortly after two very significant historical events for Irish Catholics. Emancipation [...]
Passionist Priest’s sacrificial dedication to the vision of St. Paul of the Cross — the vision of a Catholic England once again — bore many fruits, and Newman was one of them By Alberto Carosa St. Paul of the Cross (1694-1775), founder of the Passionists, who prayed for the re-conversion of England, and whose follower [...]
