Newman writes, “the world overcomes us, not merely by appealing to our reason, or by exciting our passions, but by imposing on our imagination.”

St. John Henry Newman told boys that the rosary makes the Creed into a prayer.

In a recent conference titled "Newman, Tradition and Law" at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law various speakers discussed Newman's ideas on development of doctrine.

Newman examines the relation between reason and faith, and the usurpations or misuses of reason on the one hard and Church authority on the other.

Faith then is not the reasoning of a weak mind rather it is the reasoning of a divinely enlightened mind.

Today we celebrate the fifth anniversary of John Henry Newman's canonization which took place on October 13, 2019.

"Arguably no theologian has had a greater impact on the Catholic Church in the past 150 years than St. John Henry Newman."

Christian writer C.S. Lewis likened the process of sanctification to God building a house: “The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

Newman’s beautiful poem, The Dream of Gerontius, is completed by the magnificent choral composition of Edward Elgar.

This vision of purgatory from St. John Henry Newman is one of the most beautiful insights in English literature, and could only have come from the mature mind of an eventual saint.