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Cardinal Newman critiqued: How Cardinal Lépicier went about it
How exactly did Cardinal Alexis Lépicier go about his criticism of Cardinal John Henry Newman – and what can contemporary purveyors of the 'anti-Newman…
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S.D. Wright
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Newman, Doctor of the Church? McCusker's interview with Kokx News
What should we make of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s alleged elevation to the status of Doctor of the Church – as well as his canonisation, and other…
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M. J. McCusker
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Stephen Kokx
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Newman would be the fourth 'ipso facto loss of office' Doctor of the Church
How many Doctors of the Church can be cited in support of the contrary opinion?
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S.D. Wright
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Everything you've heard about Newman’s 'toast to conscience' is probably wrong
No other explanation of Cardinal John Henry Newman's comments about toasting 'conscience first, and the Pope afterwards' makes sense except this:
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S.D. Wright
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Toasting the Pope—Cardinal Newman and a forgotten controversy
Does an article from The Rambler provide the solution to one of the fiercest Cardinal Newman controversies?
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Cardinal Newman on Anglican orders—applied to Novus Ordo orders
Cardinal John Henry Newman analyses the problems with Anglican orders in ways relevant to Novus Ordo ordination rites reformed by Paul VI. We provide…
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S.D. Wright
Why it's fitting that the month of May is dedicated to Our Lady – Editors' Updates
The glories of creation reflect from glories of God and Our Lady.
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M. J. McCusker
Cardinal Newman and the validity of Holy Orders—What would he think today?
Cardinal Newman's letter to Father Henry James Coleridge SJ on the question of Anglican Orders provides a way of approaching the question of the Novus…
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Cardinal Newman and the influencers of his day – What would he think of Catholic YouTube?
“They simply do not know what they are talking about.”
Was Cardinal Newman 'very friendly' with 'arch-modernist' Baron von Hügel?
Some have tried to cast Cardinal John Henry Newman as 'guilty by association' with Baron von Hügel—but what is the evidence for their supposedly close…
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S.D. Wright
Accusations of modernism and protestantism against Cardinal Newman
Did Newman see conscience as an ‘internet connection to heaven,’ and did he remain a Protestant and proto-modernist?
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S.D. Wright
Is Cardinal Newman's idea of conscience 'precisely modernist'?
It has been alleged that '[Newman’s] idea of conscience is precisely modernist’—but Newman's idea was identical to that of his accuser and of St Thomas…
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S.D. Wright
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