doctor of the church Archives - Catholic Bishops' Conference https://www.cbcew.org.uk/tag/doctor-of-the-church/ England and Wales Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:16:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/09/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png doctor of the church Archives - Catholic Bishops' Conference https://www.cbcew.org.uk/tag/doctor-of-the-church/ 32 32 174395915 Pope Leo XIV praises Newman’s lasting legacy: “Education helps everyone become saints” https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-xiv-and-newmans-lasting-legacy-education-helps-everyone-become-saints/ https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-xiv-and-newmans-lasting-legacy-education-helps-everyone-become-saints/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:15:15 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?p=112012 On Saturday 1 November, Catholics celebrated the declaration of St John Henry Newman as the 38th Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV. In addition to this historic honour, St John Henry Newman was also made co-patron of Catholic education, alongside St Thomas Aquinas, and on 3 November 2025, it was announced that Newman […]

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]]> https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-xiv-and-newmans-lasting-legacy-education-helps-everyone-become-saints/feed/ 0 112012 Bishop Davies: Catholics should be inspired by Newman’s “fearless love of the truth” https://www.cbcew.org.uk/bishop-mark-davies-catholics-should-be-inspired-by-newmans-fearless-love-of-the-truth/ https://www.cbcew.org.uk/bishop-mark-davies-catholics-should-be-inspired-by-newmans-fearless-love-of-the-truth/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:19:34 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?p=111974 In a pastoral letter read out in the churches of the Diocese of Shrewsbury over the weekend of 1-2 November, the Feast of All Saints, the Rt Rev. Mark Davies told the faithful that St John Henry Newman made his journey into the Catholic faith by allowing himself to be guided by love of the […]

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]]> https://www.cbcew.org.uk/bishop-mark-davies-catholics-should-be-inspired-by-newmans-fearless-love-of-the-truth/feed/ 0 111974 Archbishop Wilson welcomes Newman announcement https://www.cbcew.org.uk/archbishop-wilson-welcomes-newman-announcement/ https://www.cbcew.org.uk/archbishop-wilson-welcomes-newman-announcement/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:03:03 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?p=108450 The Vatican announced that Pope Leo XIV will declare St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Catholic Church. Responding to the news, Archbishop John Wilson, Archbishop of Southwark, said:  The announcement that St John Henry Newman will become a Doctor of the Catholic Church will fill the hearts of English Catholics with so much […]

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]]> https://www.cbcew.org.uk/archbishop-wilson-welcomes-newman-announcement/feed/ 0 108450 Education: Moral and intellectual ‘under one roof’ https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-education-moral-and-intellectual/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:33:24 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108392 I would like to pay particular tribute to his vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today. Firmly opposed to any reductive or utilitarian approach, he sought to achieve an educational environment in which intellectual training, moral discipline and religious […]

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]]> 108392 Sensus fidelium: Newman and the people of God https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-and-the-people-of-god/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:18:13 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108373 Newman teaches us that if we have accepted the truth of Christ and committed our lives to him, there can be no separation between what we believe and the way we live our lives. Our every thought, word and action must be directed to the glory of God and the spread of his Kingdom. Newman […]

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]]> 108373 Newman and Ecclesiology https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-and-ecclesiology/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:18:09 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108364 Many of the problems which he treated with wisdom – although he himself was frequently misunderstood and misinterpreted in his own time – were the subjects of the discussion and study of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, as for example the question of ecumenism, the relationship between Christianity and the world, the emphasis […]

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]]> 108364 Development of Doctrine https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-development-of-doctrine/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:52:26 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108362 The unity of faith, then, is the unity of a living body; this was clearly brought out by Bl. John Henry Newman when he listed among the characteristic notes for distinguishing the continuity of doctrine over time its power to assimilate everything that it meets in the various settings in which it becomes present and […]

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]]> 108362 Faith, Reason, Conscience and Truth https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-faith-reason-conscience-and-truth/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:27:03 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108354 Rationalism brought with it a rejection of both authority and transcendence, while fideism turned from the challenges of history and the tasks of this world to a distorted dependence upon authority and the supernatural. In such a world, Newman came eventually to a remarkable synthesis of faith and reason, which were for him “like two […]

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]]> 108354 Bishops’ Conference welcomes news that Pope Leo will declare St John Henry Newman a ‘Doctor’ of the Catholic Church https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-to-declare-st-john-henry-newman-a-doctor-of-the-church/ https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-to-declare-st-john-henry-newman-a-doctor-of-the-church/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:56:42 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?p=108347 Pope Leo XIV will officially proclaim Saint John Henry Newman, the most recently canonised saint from England and Wales, the 38th Doctor of the Church during Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints, which will be celebrated in Saint Peter’s Square on Saturday, 1 November in the context of the Jubilee of the World of […]

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]]> https://www.cbcew.org.uk/pope-leo-to-declare-st-john-henry-newman-a-doctor-of-the-church/feed/ 0 108347 What is a Doctor of the Church? https://www.cbcew.org.uk/newman-what-is-a-doctor-of-the-church/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:01:50 +0000 https://www.cbcew.org.uk/?page_id=108334 From time to time, the Church recognises a great Christian theologian of the past whose teaching not only resonated for their own contemporaries, but whose wisdom and insight as an interpreter of the Gospel can still illuminate, instruct and inspire. The Church gives them the title ‘Doctor’, from the Latin ‘docere’ meaning ‘to teach’, because […]

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