Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman

Newman's love of Nature, his love of friends, his love of the Catholic Church were all because he loved God, for whom they were intimations.

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Implicit faith, or trust in God and the Church, forms the foundation, while explicit reasoning enriches and defends belief.

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Everywhere in our culture we are urged to be ourselves, to buck the system, to express our unique individuality, to break the glass ceiling, to stand up and stand out and stand apart. In obeying God, we will certainly do some of these things, and people around us may be offended. But there is no virtue in individual expression or in offending others, only in obedience to God.

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Newman teaches that God who is faithful does not tempt men. We are moral agents responsible for our actions. We should not try to rid ourselves of responsibility, transferring our guilt for wrong acts to other agents.

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With our Lord so close to us, residing in our souls, how can we be anything but joyful?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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