St. John Henry Newman describes the spiritual and moral decadence of Florence and Rome in the period immediately preceding the birth of St. Philip Neri, and the reform Savonarola tried to effect.

John Henry Newman described how the unity of the Church is fully manifest in a diocesan synod, and why the faithful should always act in unity with their bishop.

Sermon preached by John Henry Newman in 1852 at the First Synod of Westminster. He describes the re-birth of the Roman Catholic Church in England.

John Henry Newman sums up the history of English Catholicism and relates the grace God brought to England with the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850.

John Henry Newman recounts in large strokes the history of Catholicism in England, its growth and vitality as well as persecution. It is a reminder of Christ walking upon the waters.