
John Henry Newman
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(1801-1890)
Cardinal-Deacon of St. George in Velabro, divine, philosopher, man of letters, leader of the Tractarian Movement, and the most illustrious of English converts to the Church.
Born in the City of London, 21 February, 1801, the eldest of six children, three boys and three girls; died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 11 August, 1890. Over his descent there has been some discussion as regards the paternal side. His father was John Newman, a banker, his mother Jemima Fourdrinier, of a Huguenot family settled in London as engravers and paper-makers. It is stated that the name was at one time spelt Newmann; it is certain that many Jews, English or foreign, have borne it; and the suggestion has been thrown out that he was of Jewish descent. But no documentary evidence has been found to confirm the suggestion. His French pedigree is undoubted. It accounts for his religious training, a modified Calvinism, which he received at his mother's knees; and perhaps it helped towards the "lucid concision" of his phrase when dealing with abstruse subjects. His brother Francis William, also a writer, but wanting in literary charm, turned from the English Church to Deism ; Charles Robert, the second son, was very erratic, and professed Atheism. One sister, Mary, died young; Jemima has a place in the cardinal's biography during the crisis of his Anglican career; and to a daughter of Harriet, Anne Mozley, we are indebted for his "Letters and Correspondence" down to 1845, which contains a sequel from his own hand to the "Apologia."
A classic from the day it was completed, the "Apologia" will ever be the chief authority for Newman's early thoughts, and for his judgment on the great religious revival known as the Oxford Movement, of which he was the guide, the philosopher, and the martyr. His immense correspondence, the larger portion of which still awaits publication, cannot essentially change our estimate of one who, though subtle to a degree bordering on refinement, was also impulsive and open with his friends, as well as bold in his confidences to the public. From all that is thus known of him we may infer that Newman's greatness consisted in the union of originality, amounting to genius of the first rank, with a deep spiritual temper, the whole manifesting itself in language of perfect poise and rhythm, in energy such as often has created sects or Churches, and in a personality no less winning than sensitive. Among the literary stars of his time Newman is distinguished by the pure Christian radiance that shines in his life and writings. He is the one Englishman of that era who upheld the ancient creed with a knowledge that only theologians possess, a Shakespearean force of style, and a fervour worthy of the saints. It is this unique combination that raises him above lay preachers de vanitate mundi like Thackeray, and which gives him a place apart from Tennyson and Browning. In comparison with him Keble is a light of the sixth magnitude, Pusey but a devout professor, Liddon a less eloquent Lacordaire. Newman occupies in the nineteenth century a position recalling that of Bishop Butler in the eighteenth. As Butler was the Christian champion against Deism, so Newman is the Catholic apologist in an epoch of Agnosticism, and amid the theories of evolution. He is, moreover, a poet, and his "Dream of Gerontius" far excels the meditative verse of modern singers by its happy shadowing forth in symbol and dramatic scenes of the world behind the veil.
He was brought up from a child to take great delight in reading the Bible ; but he had no formed religious convictions until he was fifteen. He used to wish the Arabian tales were true ; his mind ran on unknown influences; he thought life possibly a dream, himself an angel, and that his fellow-angels might be deceiving him with the semblance of a material world. He was "very superstitious " and would cross himself on going into the dark. At fifteen he underwent "conversion", though not quite as Evangelicals practise it; from works of the school of Calvin he gained definite dogmatic ideas ; and as he rested "in the thought of two and two only absolute and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator." In other words, personality became the primal truth in his philosophy ; not matter, law, reason, or the experience of the senses. Henceforth, Newman was a Christian mystic, and such he remained. From the writings of Thomas Scott of Aston Sandford, "to whom, humanly speaking", he says, "I almost owe my soul ", he learned the doctrine of the Trinity, supporting each verse of the Athanasian Creed with texts from Scripture. Scott's aphorisms were constantly on his lips for years, "Holiness rather than peace", and "Growth is the only evidence of life." Law's "Serious Call" had on the youth a Catholic or ascetic influence; he was born to be a missionary; thought it was God's will that he should lead a single life; was enamoured of quotations from the Fathers given in Milner's "Church History", and, reading Newton on the Prophecies, felt convinced that the pope was Antichrist. He had been at school at Ealing near London from the age of seven. Always thoughtful, shy, and affectionate, he took no part in boys' games, began to exercise his pen early, read the Waverley Novels, imitated Gibbon and Johnson, matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, December, 1816, and in 1818 won a scholarship of 60 pounds tenable for nine years. In 1819 his father's bank suspended payment, but soon discharged its liabilities in full. Working too hard for his degree, Newman broke down, and gained in 1821 only third-class honors. But his powers could not be hidden. Oriel was then first in reputation and intellect among the Oxford Colleges, and of Oriel he was elected a fellow, 12 April, 1822. He ever felt this to be "the turning point in his life, and of all days most memorable."
In 1821 he had given up the intention of studying for the Bar, and resolved to take orders. As tutor of Oriel, he considered that he had a cure of souls ; he was ordained on 13 June, 1824; and at Pusey's suggestion became curate of St. Clement's, Oxford, where he spent two years in parochial activity. And here the views in which he had been brought up disappointed him; Calvinism was not a key to the phenomena of human nature as they occur in the world. It would not work. He wrote articles on Cicero, etc., and his first "Essay on Miracles", which takes a strictly Protestant attitude, to the prejudice of those alleged outside Scripture. But he also fell under the influence of Whateley, afterwards Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, who, in 1825, made him his vice-principal at St. Mary's Hall. Whateley stimulated him by discussion, taught him the notion of Christianity as a social and sovereign organism distinct from the State, but led him in the direction of "liberal" ideas and nominalistic logic. To Whateley's once famous book on that subject Newman contributed. From Hawkins, whom his casting vote made Provost of Oriel, he gained the Catholic doctrines of tradition and baptismal regeneration, as well as a certain precision of terms which, long afterwards, gave rise to Kingsley's misunderstanding of Newman's methods in writing. By another Oxford clergyman he was taught to believe in the Apostolic succession. And Butler's "Analogy", read in 1823, made an era in his religious opinions. It is probably not too much to say that this deep and searching book became Newman's guide in life, and gave rise not only to the "Essay on Development" but to the "Grammar of Assent." In particular it offered a rejective account of ethics and conscience which confirmed his earliest beliefs in a lawgiver and judge intimately present to the soul. On another line it suggested the sacramental system, or the "Economy", of which the Alexandrians Clement and St. Athanasius are exponents. To sum up, at this formative period the sources whence Newman derived his principles as well as his doctrines were Anglican and Greek, not Roman or German. His Calvinism dropped away; in time he withdrew from the BibleSociety. He was growing fiercely anti-Erastian; and Whateley saw the elements of a fresh party in the Church gathering round one whom Oriel had chosen for his intellectual promise, but whom Oxford was to know as a critic and antagonist of the "March of Mind."
His college in 1828 made him Vicar of St. Mary's (which was also the university church), and in its pulpit he delivered the "Parochial Sermons ", without eloquence or gesture, for he had no popular gifts, but with a thrilling earnestness and a knowledge of human nature seldom equalled. When published, it was said of them that they "beat all other sermons out of the market as Scott's tales beat all other stories." They were not controversial; and there is little in them to which Catholic theology would object. Their chastened style, fertility of illustration, and short sharp energy, have lost nothing by age. In tone they are severe and often melancholy, as if the utterance of an isolated spirit. Though gracious and even tenderhearted, Newman's peculiar temper included deep reserve. He had not in his composition, as he says, a grain of conviviality. He was always the Oxford scholar, no democrat, suspicious of popular movements; but keenly interested in political studies as bearing on the fortunes of the Church. This disposition was intensified by his friendship with Keble, whose "Christian Year" came out in 1827, and with R. Hurrell Froude, a man of impetuous thought and self-denying practice. In 1832 he quarrelled with Dr. Hawkins, who would not endure the pastoral idea which Newman cherished of his college work. He resigned his tutorship, went on a long voyage round the Mediterranean with Froude, and came back to Oxford, where on 14 July, 1833, Keble preached the Assize sermon on "National Apostasy." That day, the anniversary of the French Revolution, gave birth to the Oxford Movement.
Newman's voyage to the coasts of North Africa, Italy, Western Greece, and Sicily (December, 1832-July, 1833) was a romantic episode, of which his diaries have preserved the incidents and the colour. In Rome he saw Wiseman at the English College ; the city, as mother of religion to his native land, laid a spell on him never more to be undone. He felt called to some high mission; and when fever took him at Leonforte in Sicily (where he was wandering alone) he cried out, "I shall not die, I have not sinned against the light." Off Cape Ortegal, 11 December, 1832, he had composed the first of a series of poems, condensed, passionate, and original which prophesied that the Church would yet reign as in her youth. Becalmed in the Straits of Bonifacio, he sought guidance through the tender verses, "Lead, Kindly Light", deservedly treasured by all the English-speaking races. They have been called the marching song of the Tractarian host. But during the earlier stages of that journey it was not clear, even to the leader himself, in what direction they were moving -- away from the Revolution, certainly. Reform was in the air; ten Irish bishoprics had been suppressed; disestablishment might not be far off. There was need of resistance to the enemies without, and of a second, but a Catholic, reformation within. The primitive Church must somehow be restored in England. Others met in committee and sent up an address to Canterbury ; Newman began the "Tracts for the Times", as he tells us with a smile, "out of his own head." To him Achilles always seemed more than the host of the Achans. He took his motto from the Iliad: "They shall know the difference now." Achilles went down into battle, fought for eight years, won victory upon victory, but was defeated by his own weapons when "Tract 90" appeared, and retired to his tent at Littlemore, a broken champion. Nevertheless, he had done a lasting work, greater than Laud's and likely to overthrow Cranmer's in the end. He had resuscitated the Fathers, brought into relief the sacramental system, paved the way for an astonishing revival of long-forgotten ritual, and given the clergy a hold upon thousands at the moment when Erastian principles were on the eve of triumph. "It was soon after 1830", says Pattison grimly, "that the Tracts desolated Oxford life." Newman's position was designated the Via Media. The English Church, he maintained, lay at an equal distance from Rome and Geneva. It was Catholic in origin and doctrine ; it anathematized as heresies the peculiar tenets whether of Calvin or Luther ; it could not but protest against "Roman corruptions", which were excrescences on primitive truth. Hence England stood by the Fathers, whose teaching the Prayer Book handed down; it appealed to antiquity, and its norm was the undivided Church. "Charles", said Newman, "is the king, Laud the prelate, Oxford the sacred city, of this principle." Patristic study became the order of the day. Newman's first volume, "The Arians of the Fourth Century", is an undigested, but valuable and characteristic, treatise, wholly Alexandrian in tone, dealing with creeds and sects on the lines of the "Economy." As a history it fails; the manner is confused, the style a contrast to his later intensity and directness of expression. But as a thinker Newman never travelled much beyond the "Arians" (published 1833). It implies a mystic philosophy controlled by Christian dogma, as the Church expounds it. In the "Apologia" we find this key to his mental development dropped by Newman, not undesignedly. He says,
There had been a " dispensation " of the Gentiles as well as of the Jews. Both had outwardly come to nought; from and through each had the evangelical doctrine been made manifest. Thus room was granted for the anticipation of deeper disclosures, of truths still under the veil of the letter. Holy Church "will remain after all but a symbol of those heavenly facts which fill eternity. Her mysteries are but the expression in human language of truths to which the human mind is unequal" ("Apol." ed. 1895, p. 27). Such was the teaching that "came like music" to his inward ear, from Athens and Alexandria. Newman's life was devoted, first, to applying this magnificent scheme to the Church of England ; and then, when it would not suit those insular dimensions, to the Church of the centre, to Rome. But its wide implications even this far-glancing vision did not take in. However, it substituted a dynamic and progressive principle in Christianity for one merely static. But the Anglican position was supposed to rely on Vincent of Lérins's Quod ubique , admitting of no real developments; its divines urged against Boussuet the "variations" of Catholicism. From 1833 to 1839 the Tractarian leader held this line of defence without a misgiving. Suddenly it gave way, and the Via Media disappeared.
Meanwhile, Oxford was shaken like Medicean Florence by a new Savonarola, who made disciples on every hand; who stirred up sleepy Conservatives when Hampden, a commonplace don, subjected Christian verities to the dissolving influence of Nominalism ; and who multiplied books and lectures dealing with all religious parties at once. "The Prophetic Office" was a formal apology of the Laudian type; the obscure, but often beautiful "Treatise on Justification" made an effort "to show that there is little difference but what is verbal in the various views, found whether among Catholic or Protestant divines" on this subject. Döllinger called it "the greatest masterpiece in theology that England had produced in a hundred years", and it contains the true answer to Puritanism. The "University Sermons ", profound as their theme, aimed at determining the powers and limits of reason, the methods of revelation, the possibilities of a real theology. Newman wrote so much that his hand almost failed him. Among a crowd of admirers only one perhaps, Hurrell Froude, could meet him in thought on fairly equal terms, and Froude passed away at Dartington in 1836. The pioneer went his road alone. He made a bad party-leader, being liable to sudden gusts and personal resolutions which ended in catastrophe. But from 1839, when he reigned at Oxford without a rival, he was already faltering. In his own language, he had seen a ghost -- the shadow of Rome overclouding his Anglican compromise.
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Two names are associated with a change so momentous -- Wiseman and Ward. The "Apologia" does full justice to Wiseman ; it scarcely mentions Ward ( see O XFORD M OVEMENT ). Those who were looking on might have predicted a collision between the Tractarians and Protestant England, which had forgotten the Caroline divines. This came about on occasion of "Tract 90" -- in itself the least interesting of all Newman's publications. The tract was intended to keep stragglers from Rome by distinguishing the corruptions against which the Thirty-Nine Articles were directed, from the doctrines of Trent which they did not assail. A furious and universal agitation broke out in consequence (Feb., 1841), Newman was denounced as a traitor, a Guy Fawkes at Oxford ; the University intervened with academic maladroitness and called the tract "an evasion." Dr. Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, mildly censured it, but required that the tracts should cease. For three years condemnations from the bench of bishops were scattered broadcast. To a mind constituted like Newman's, imbued with Ignatian ideas of episcopacy, and unwilling to perceive that they did not avail in the English Establishment, this was an ex cathedra judgment against him. He stopped the tracts, resigned his editorship of "The British Critic", by and by gave up St. Mary's, and retired at Littlemore into lay communion . Nothing is clearer than that, if he had held on quietly, he would have won the day. "Tract 90" does not go so far as many Anglican attempts at reconciliation have gone since. The bishops did not dream of coercing him into submission. But he had lost faith in himself. Reading church history he saw that the Via Media was no new thing. It had been the refuge of the Semiarians, without whom Arianism could never have flourished. It made the fortune of the Monophysites, thanks to whom the Church of Alexandria had sunk into heresy and fallen a prey to Mohammed's legions. The analogy which Newman had observed with dismay was enforced from another side by Wiseman, writing on the Donatists in "The Dublin Review." Wiseman quoted St. Augustine, "Securus judicat orbis terrarum", which may be interpreted " Catholic consent is the judge of controversy." Not antiquity studied in books, not the bare succession of bishops, but the living Church now broke upon him as alone peremptory and infallible. It ever had been so; it must be so still. Nicæa, Ephesus, and Chalcedon thus bore witness to Rome. Add to this the grotesque affair of the Jerusalem bishopric, the fruit of an alliance with Lutheran Prussia, and the Anglican theory was disproved by facts.

From 1841 Newman was on his death-bed as regarded the Anglican Church. He and some friends lived together at Littlemore in monastic seclusion, under a hard rule which did not improve his delicate health. In February, 1843, he retracted in a local newspaper his severe language towards Rome ; in September he resigned his living. With immense labour he composed the "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ", in which the apparent variations of dogma, formerly objected by him against the Catholic Church, were explained on a theory of evolution, curiously anticipating on certain points the great work of Darwin. It has many most original passages, but remains a fragment. On 9 October, 1845, during a period of excited action at Oxford, Newman was received into the Church by Father Dominic, an Italian Passionist, three days after Renan had broken with Saint-Sulpice and Catholicism. The event, although long in prospect, irritated and distressed his countrymen, who did not forgive it until many years had gone by. Its importance was felt; its causes were not known. Hence an estrangement which only the exquisite candour of Newman's self-delineation in the "Apologia" could entirely heal.
His conversion divides a life of almost ninety years into equal parts -- the first more dramatic and its perspective ascertained; the second as yet imperfectly told, but spent for a quarter of a century sub luce maligna , under suspicion from one side or another, his plans thwarted, his motives misconstrued. Called by Wiseman to Oscott, near Birmingham, in 1846, he proceeded in October to Rome, and was there ordained by Cardinal Fransoni. The pope approved of his scheme for establishing in England the Oratory of St. Philip Neri ; in 1847 he came back, and, besides setting up the London house, took mission work in Birmingham. Thence he moved out to Edgbaston, where the community still resides. A large school was added in 1859. The spacious Renaissance church, consecrated in 1909, is a memorial of the forty years during which Newman made his home in that place. After his "Sermons to Mixed Congregations", which exceed in vigour and irony all other published by him, the Oratorian recluse did not strive to gain a footing in the capital of the Midlands. He always felt "paucorum hominum sum"; his charm was not for the multitude. As a Catholic he began enthusiastically. His "Lectures on Anglican Difficulties" were heard in London by large audiences; "Loss and Gain", though not much of a story, abounds in happy strokes and personal touches; "Callista" recalls his voyage in the Mediterranean by many delightful pages; the sermon at the Synod of Oscott entitled "The Second Spring" has a rare an delicate beauty. It is said that Macaulay knew it by heart. "When Newman made up his mind to join the Church of Rome", observes R. H. Hutton, "his genius bloomed out with a force and freedom such as it never displayed in the Anglican communion." And again, "In irony, in humour, in eloquence, in imaginative force, the writings of the later and, as we may call it, emancipated portion of his career far surpass the writings of his theological apprenticeship." But English Catholic literature also gained a persuasive voice and a classic dignity of which hitherto there had been no example.
His own secession, preceded by that of Ward (amid conflicts of the angriest kind at Oxford), and followed by many others, had alarmed Englishmen. In 1850 came the "Papal Aggression", by which the country was divided into Catholic sees, and a Roman cardinal announced from the Flaminian Gate his commission to "govern" Westminster. The nation went mad with excitement. Newman delivered in the Corn Exchange, Birmingham, his Lectures on the Position of Catholics (he was seldom felicitous in titles of books), and, to George Eliot's amazement, they revealed him as a master of humorous, almost too lively sketches, witty and scornful of the great Protestant tradition. An apostate Italian priest, Achilli, was haranguing against the Church. Prompted by Wiseman, the Oratorian gave particulars of this man's infamous career, and Achilli brought a charge of libel. Newman, at enormous expense, collected evidence which fully justified the accusations he had made. But a no-popery jury convicted him. He was fined 100 pounds; on appeal, the verdict was quashed; and "The Times" admitted that a miscarriage of justice had taken place when Newman was declared guilty. Catholics all the world over came to his relief. His thanks are on record in the dedication of his Dublin "Lectures." But he always remembered that to Wiseman's haste and carelessness he owed this trial.
There was much more trouble awaiting him. The years from 1851 to 1870 brought disaster to a series of noble projects in which he aimed at serving religion and culture. In Ireland the bishops had been compelled, after rejecting the "Godless" colleges in 1847, to undertake a university of their own. Neither men nor ideas were forthcoming; the State would not sanction degrees conferred by a private body; nevertheless, an attempt could be made; and Newman was appointed rector, November, 1851. Three years passed as in a dream ; in 1854 he took the oaths. But he had, in 1852, addressed Ireland on the "Idea of a University" with such a largeness and liberality of view as Oxford, if we may believe Pattison, had never taught him. The "Lectures" end abruptly; they gave him less satisfaction than any other of his works; yet, in conjunction with his brilliant short papers in the "University Magazine", and academic dissertations to the various "Schools", they exhibit a range of thought, an urbanity of style, and a pregnant wit, such as no living professor could have rivalled. They are the best defence of Catholic educational theories in any language; a critic perhaps would describe them as the Via Media between an obscurantism which tramples on the rights of knowledge and Free-Thought which will not hear of the rights of revelation. Incidentally, they defended the teaching of the classics against a French Puritan clique led by the Abbé Gaume. This was pretty much all that Newman achieved during the seven years of his "Campaign in Ireland." Only a few native or English students attended the house in St. Stephen's Green. The bishops were divided, and Archbishop MacHale opposed a severe non possumus to the rector's plans. In administration difficulties sprang up; and though Newman won the friendship of Archbishop Cullen and Bishop Moriarty, he was not always treated with due regard. The status of titular bishop had been promised him; for reasons which he never learnt, the promise fell through. His feeling towards Ireland was warm and generous; but in Nov., 1858, he retired from the rectorship. Its labours and anxieties had told upon him. Another large enterprise, to which Cardinal Wiseman invited him only to balk his efforts, was likewise a failure -- the revision of the English Catholic Bible. Newman had selected a company of revisors and had begun to accumulate materials, but some small publishers' interests were pleaded on the other side, and Wiseman, whose intentions were good, but evanescent, allowed them to wreck this unique opportunity.
During the interval between 1854 and 1860 Newman had passed from the convert's golden fervours into a state which resembled criticism of prevailing methods in church government and education. His friends included some of a type known to history as "Liberal Catholics." Of Montalembert and Lacordaire he wrote in 1864: "In their general line of thought and conduct I enthusiastically concur and consider them to be before their age." He speaks of "the unselfish aims, the thwarted projects, the unrequited toils, the grand and tender resignation of Lacordaire." That moving description might be applied to Newman himself. He was intent on the problems of the time and not alarmed at Darwin's "Origin of Species." He had been made aware by German scholars, like Acton, of the views entertained at Munich ; and he was keenly sensitive to the difference between North and South in debatable questions of policy or discipline. He looked beyond the immediate future; in a lecture at Dublin on "A Form of Infidelity of the Day" he seems to have anticipated what is now termed "Modernism", condemning it as the ruin of dogma. It is distressing to imagine what Newman's horror would have been, had his intuition availed to tell him that, in little more than half a century, a "form of infidelity" so much like what he had predicted would claim him as its originator; on the other hand, he would surely have taken comfort, could he also have foreseen that the soundness of his faith was to be so vindicated as it has been by Bishop O'Dwyer, of Limerick, and above all, the vindication so approved and confirmed as it is in Pius X's letter of 10 March, 1908, to that bishop. In another lecture, on "Christianity and Scientific Investigation", he provides for a concordat which would spare the world a second case of Galileo. He held that Christian theology was a deductive science, but physics and the like were inductive ; therefore collision between them need not, and in fact did not really occur. He resisted in principle the notion that historical evidence could do away with the necessity of faith as regarded creeds and definitions. He deprecated the intrusions of amateurs into divinity; but he was anxious that laymen should take their part in the movement of intellect. This led him to encourage J. M. Capes in founding the "Rambler", and H. Wilberforce in editing the "Weekly Register." But likewise it brought him face to face with a strong reaction from the earlier liberal policy of Pius IX. This new movement, powerful especially in France, was eagerly taken up by Ward and Manning, who now influenced Wiseman as he sank under a fatal disease. Their quarrel with J.H.N. (as he was familiarly called) did not break out in open war ; but much embittered correspondence is left which proves that, while no point of faith divided the parties, their dissensions threw back English Catholic education for thirty years.
These misunderstandings turned on three topics:
- the "scientific" history which was cultivated by the "Rambler", with Newman's partial concurrence;
- the proposed oratory at Oxford ; and
- the temporal power, then at the crisis of its fate.
Newman's editorship of the "Rambler", accepted, on request of Wiseman, by way of compromise, lasted only two months (May-July, 1859). His article, "On Consulting the Laity in Matters of Doctrine", was denounced at Rome by Bishop Brown of Newport and Menevia. Leave was given for an Oratorian house at Oxford, provided Newman did not go thither himself, which defeated the whole plan. A sharp review of Manning's "Lectures on the Temporal Power" was attributed to Newman, who neither wrote nor inspired it; and these two illustrious Catholics were never friends again. Newman foresaw the total loss of the temporal power; his fears were justified; but prevision and the politics of the day could not well be united. Of all Christians then living this great genius had the deepest insight into the future; but to his own generation he became as Jeremiah announcing the fall of Jerusalem. Despondency was his prevailing mood when, in January, 1864, from an unexpected quarter, the chance of his life was given him.
Charles Kingsley, a bold, picturesque, but fiercely anti-Catholic writer, dealing, in "Macmillan's Magazine", with J. A. Froude's "History of England," let fall the remark that
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the Saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage. Whether his notion be doctrinally correct or not, it is at least historically so.These assertions had no foundation whatever in fact. Newman demanded proof ; a correspondence ensued in which Kingsley referred to one of the Oxford Anglican sermons generally; he withdrew his charge in terms that left its injustice unreproved; and thus he brought on himself, in the pamphlet which his adversary published, one of the most cutting replies, ironical and pitiless, known to literature. He returned to the assault. "What then does Dr. Newman mean?" was his question. The answer came in the shape of an "Apologia pro Vita sua", which, while pulverizing enemies of the Kingsley stamp, lifted Newman to a height above all his detractors, and added a unique specimen of religious autobiography to our language. Issued in seven parts between 21 April and 2 June, 1864, the original work was a marvel of swift and cogent writing. Materials in expectation of some such opportunity had been collecting since 1862. But the duel which led up to an account of Newman's most intimate feelings exhibited sword-play the like of which can be scarcely found outside Pascal's "Provincial Letters" and Lessing's "Anti-Goeze." It annihilated the opponent and his charge. Not that Newman cherished a personal animosity against Kingsley, whom he had never met. His tone was determined by a sense of what he owed to his own honour and the Catholic priesthood. "Away with you, Mr. Kingsley, and fly into space ", were his parting words to a man whose real gifts did not serve him in this wild encounter. Then the old Tractarian hero told the story of his life. He looked upon it with the eye of an artist, with self-knowledge like that of Hamlet, with candour, and pathos, and awe; for he felt a guiding power throughout which had brought him home. The handling was unaffected, the portraits of Oxford celebrities true and yet kind; the drama which ended in his renunciation of place and power at St. Mary's moved on with a tragic interest. His brief prologues are among the jewels of English prose. A word from St. Augustine converted him, and its poignant effects could not be surpassed in the "Confessions" of the saint himself. The soliloquy, as we may term it, which describes Newman's attitude since 1845, presents in a lofty view his apology, which is not a surrender, to those Catholics who mistrusted him. Though he never would discuss the primary problems of Theism ex professo , he has dwelt on the apparent chaos of history, goodness defeated and moral efforts futile, with a piercing eloquence which reminds us of some lament in "schylus." He met Kingsley's accusations of double-dealing proudly and in detail. But by the time he reached them, Englishmen -- who had read the successive chapters with breathless admiration -- were completely brought round. No finer triumph of talent in the service of conscience has been put on record. From that day the Catholic religion may date its reentrance into the national literature. Instead of arid polemics and technical arguments, a living soul had revealed its journey towards the old faith wherein lay the charm that drew it on. Reality became more fascinating that romance; the problem which staggered Protestants and modern minds -- how to reconcile individual genius with tradition, private judgment with authority -- was resolved in Newman's great example.
Amid acclamations from Catholics, echoing the "aves vehement" of the world outside, he turned to the philosophy which would justify his action. He began the "Grammar of Assent." Still, Manning, now archbishop, Talbot, chamberlain of Pius IX, Ward, editor of the "Dublin Review", were not to be pacified. Manning thought he was transplanting the "Oxford tone into the Church "; Talbot described him as "the most dangerous man in England "; Ward used even harder terms. In 1867 an attack by a Roman correspondent on Newman led to a counter-move, when two hundred distinguished laymen told him, "Every blow that touches you inflicts a wound upon the Catholic Church in this country." His discriminating answer on the cultus of Our Lady to Pusey's "Eirenicon" had been taken ill in some quarters. One of his Oratorians, H.I.D. Ryder, was bold enough to cross swords with the editor of the "Dublin", who inflicted on friend and foe views concerning the extent of papal infallibility which the Roman authorities did not sanction ; and Newman rejoiced in the assault. In 1870 the "Grammar" was published. But its appearance, coinciding with the Vatican Council , roused less attention than the author's suspected dislike for the aims and conduct of the majority at Rome. Years before he had proclaimed his belief in the infallible pope. His "Cathedra Sempiterna" rivals in fervour and excels in genuine rhetoric the passage with which de Maistre concluded his "Du Pape", which became a text for "ultramontane" apologetics. Yet he shrank from the perils which hung over men less stable than himself, should the definition be carried. He would have healed the breach between Rome and Munich. Under these impressions he sent to his bishop, W.B. Ullathorne, a confidential letter in which he branded, not the Fathers of the Council, but the journalists and other partisans outside who were abounding in violent language, as "an insolent and aggressive faction." The letter was surreptitiously made public; a heated controversy ensued; but Newman took no further part in the conciliar proceedings. Of course he accepted the dogmatic definitions; and in 1874 he defended the Church against Gladstone's charge that "Vaticanism" was equivalent to the latest fashions in religion (see his "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk").
Newman's demeanour towards authority was ever one of submission; but, as he wrote to Phillips de Lisle in 1848, "it is no new thing with me to feel little sympathy with parties, or extreme opinions of any kind." In recommending the Creed he would employ "a wise and gentle minimism", not extenuating what was true but setting down nought in malice. The "Grammar of Assent" illustrates and defends this method, in which human nature is not left out of account. It is curiously Baconian, for it eschews abstractions and metaphysics, being directed to the problem of concrete affirmation, its motives in fact, and its relation to the personality of the individual. This hitherto unexplored province of apologetics lay dark, while the objective reasons for assent had engrossed attention; we might term it the casuistry of belief. Newman brought to the solution a profound acquaintance with the human heart, which was his own; a resolve to stand by experience; and a subtilty of expression corresponding to his fine analysis. He believed in "implicit" logic, varied and converging proofs, indirect demonstration ( ex impossibili or ex absurdo ); assent, in short, in not a mechanical echo of the syllogism but a vital act, distinct and determined. The will, sacrificed in many schools to formal intellect, recovers its power; genius and common sense are justified. Not that pure logic loses its rights, or truth is merely "that which each man troweth"; but the moral being furnishes an indispensable premise to arguments bearing on life, and all that is meant by a "pious disposition" towards faith is marvellously drawn out. As a sequel and crown to the "Development" this often touching volume (which reminds us of Pascal ) completed the author's philosophy. Some portions of it he is said to have written ten times, the last chapter many times more. Yet that chapter is already in part antiquated. The general description,however, of concrete assent appears likely to survive all objections. How far it bears on Kant's "Practical Reason " or the philosophy of the will as developed by Schopenhauer, has yet to be considered. But we must not torture it into the "pragmatism" of a later day. As Newman held by dogma in revelation, so he would never have denied that the mind enjoys a vision of truth founded on reality. He was a mystic, not a sceptic. To him the reason by which men guided themselves was "implicit" rather than "explicit", but reason nevertheless. Abstractions do not exist; but the world is a fact; our own personality cannot be called in question; the will is a true cause; and God reveals Himself in conscience. Apologetics, to be persuasive, should address the individual ; for real assents, however multiplied, are each single and sui generis. Even a universal creed becomes in this way a private acquisition. As the "Development" affords a counterpart to Boussuet's "Variations", so the "Grammar" may be said to have reduced the "personal equation" in controversy to a working hypothesis, whereas in Protestant hands it had served the purposes of anarchy.
For twenty years Newman lay under imputations at Rome, which misconstrued his teaching and his character. This, which has been called the ostracism of a saintly genius, undoubtedly was due to his former friends, Ward and Manning. In February, 1878, Pius IX died; and, by a strange conjuncture, in that same month Newman returned to Oxford as Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, "dear to him from undergraduate days." The event provoked Catholics to emulation. Moreover, the new pope, Leo XIII , had also lived in exile from the Curia since 1846, and the Virgilian sentiment, "Haud ignara mali", would come home to him. The Duke of Norfolk and other English peers approached Cardinal Manning , who submitted their strong representation to the Holy See. Pope Leo, it is alleged, was already considering how he might distinguish the aged Oratorian. He intimated, accordingly, in February, 1879, his intention of bestowing on Newman the cardinal's hat. The message affected him to tears, and he exclaimed that the cloud was lifted from him forever. By singular ill-fortune, Manning understood certain delicate phrases in Newman's reply as declining the purple; he allowed that statement to appear in "The Times", much to everyone's confusion. However, the end was come. After a hazardous journey, and in broken health, Newman arrived in Rome. He was created Cardinal-Deacon of the Title of St. George, on 12 May, 1879. His biglietto speech, equal to the occasion in grace and wisdom, declared that he had been the life-long enemy of Liberalism, or "the doctrine that there is no
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James the Less, SaintSt. James the LessTHE IDENTITY OF JAMES The name "James" in the New Testament is borne by several: James, the ... |
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Jarcke, Karl ErnstKarl Ernst JarckeBorn 10 November, 1801, at Danzig, Prussia ; died 27 December, 1852, at Vienna. He belonged to a ... |
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Jarric, Pierre dePierre de JarricMissionary writer, born at Toulouse in 1566; d. at Saintes, 2 March, 1617. He entered the ... |
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JealousyJealousyJealousy is here taken to be synonymous with envy. It is defined to be a sorrow which one ... |
Jean de La BruyèreJean de la BruyereBorn at Paris in 1645; died at Chantilly in 1696. He was the son of a comptroller general of ... |
Jean Eudes, BlessedBlessed Jean EudesFrench missionary and founder of the Eudists and of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity; ... |
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Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, BlessedSt. Jean-Gabriel PerboyreMissionary and martyr, born at Puech, Diocese of Cahors, France, 6 January, 1802; martyred at ... |
Jeanne de Valois, SaintSt. Jeanne de ValoisQueen and foundress of the Order of the Annonciades, b. 1464; d. at Bourges, 4 Feb., 1505. ... |
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JeremiasJeremias[Hebrew Irmeyah; often in the paragogic form Irmeyahu, especially in the Book of ... |
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JerichoJerichoThree cities of this name have successively occupied sites in the same neighbourhood. I. A ... |
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Jesu Dulcis MemoriaJesu Dulcis MemoriaA poem ranging from forty two to fifty three stanzas (in various manuscripts ), to form the three ... |
Jesuit ApologeticJesuit ApologeticThe accusations brought against the Society have been exceptional for their frequency and ... |
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Jesuit's BarkJesuit's Bark(C HINA B ARK ; C INCHONA ; C ORTEX C HINÆ ; P ERUVIAN B ARK ). Jesuit's ... |
Jesuits, DistinguishedDistinguished JesuitsSaints Ignatius Loyola ; Francis Xavier ; Francis Borgia ; Stanislaus Kostka; Alfonso ... |
Jesuits, History of the (1773-1814)History of the Jesuits (1773-1814)The execution of the Brief of Suppression having been largely left to local bishops, there was ... |
Jesuits, History of the (1814-1912)The Restored Jesuits (1814-1912)Pius VII had resolved to restore the Society during his captivity in France ; and after his ... |
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Jesus ChristJesus ChristOrigin of the Name of Jesus In this article, we shall consider the two words -- "Jesus" and ... |
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Jesus Christ, Early Historical Documents onEarly Historical Documents On Jesus ChristThe historical documents referring to Christ's life and work may be divided into three classes: ... |
Jesus Christ, Genealogy ofGenealogy of ChristIt is granted on all sides that the Biblical genealogy of Christ implies a number of exegetical ... |
Jesus Christ, Holy Name ofHoly Name of JesusWe give honour to the Name of Jesus, not because we believe that there is any intrinsic power ... |
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Jewish CalendarJewish CalendarDays From the remotest time to the present the Israelites have computed the day ( yôm ... |
Jewish TribeJewish Tribe( Phyle, tribus .) The earlier Hebrew term rendered in our English versions by the word ... |
Jews (as a Religion)JudaismAt the present day, the term designates the religious communion which survived the destruction of ... |
Jews, History of theHistory of the Jews( Yehúd`m; Ioudaismos ). Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism , the former denotes ... |
JezabelJezabel( Septuagint, 'Iezabél, ). Wife of Achab, King of Israel. She was the daughter of ... |
Joachim of FloraJoachim of FloraCistercian abbot and mystic; b. at Celico, near Cosenza, Italy, c. 1132; d. at San Giovanni in ... |
Joachim, SaintSt. JoachimJoachim (whose name means Yahweh prepares ), was the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If we ... |
Joan of Arc, SaintSt. Joan of ArcIn French Jeanne d'Arc ; by her contemporaries commonly known as la Pucelle (the Maid). ... |
Joan, PopessPope JoanThe fable about a female pope, who afterwards bore the name of Johanna (Joan), is first noticed ... |
Joanna of Portugal, BlessedBl. Joanna of PortugalBorn at Lisbon, 16 February, 1452; died at Aveiro, 12 may, 1490; the daughter of Alfonso V, King ... |
Joannes de SacroboscoJoannes de Sacrobosco(John Holywood), a monk of English origin, lived in the first half of the thirteenth century as ... |
JobJobOne of the books of the Old Testament , and the chief personage in it. In this article it is ... |
JocelinJocelinCistercian monk and Bishop of Glasgow ; d. at Melrose Abbey in 1199. On 22 April, 1170, ... |
Jocelin de BrakelondJocelin de BrakelondAn English chronicler, of the late twelfth century. He was the monk of Bury St. Edmund's ... |
Jocelin of WellsJocelin of Wells(Or JOSCELINE) Bishop of Bath and Wells (JOCELINUS THOTEMAN), d. 19 Nov., 1242. He was ... |
JoelJoelThe son of Phatuel, and second in the list of the twelve Minor Prophets. Nothing is known of his ... |
Joest, JanJan Joest(V AN K ALKAR ). Otherwise JAN JOOST VAN CALCKER. Dutch painter, b. at Calcker, or ... |
Jogues, Saint IsaacSt. Isaac JoguesFrench missionary, born at Orléans, France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at Ossernenon, ... |
John and Cyrus, SaintsSts. Cyrus and JohnCelebrated martyrs of the Coptic Church, surnamed thaumatourgoi anargyroi because they healed ... |
John and Paul, SaintsSts. John and PaulMartyred at Rome on 26 June. The year of their martyrdom is uncertain according to their ... |
John Baptist de la Salle, SaintSt. John Baptist de la SalleFounder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools , educational reformer, and ... |
John Baptist de Rossi, SaintJohn Baptist de Rossi(De Rubeis). Born at Voltaggio in the Diocese of Genoa, 22 February, 1698; died at Rome, 23 ... |
John Beche, BlessedJohn Beche( Alias THOMAS MARSHALL). English Benedictine abbot and martyr ; date of birth unknown; ... |
John Berchmans, SaintSt. John BerchmansBorn at Diest in Brabant, 13 March, 1599; died at Rome, 13 August, 1621. His parents watched ... |
John Bosco, SaintSt. John Bosco (Don Bosco)( Or St. John Bosco; Don Bosco.) Founder of the Salesian Society. Born of poor parents in ... |
John Boste, SaintSt. John Boste(Or JOHN BOAST.) Priest and martyr, b. of good Catholic family at Dufton, in Westmoreland, ... |
John Britton, VenerableVen. John Britton(Or Bretton). A layman and martyr, of all ancient family of Bretton near Barnsley in ... |
John Buckley, VenerableVen. John Buckley( Alias John Jones; alias John Griffith; in religion, Godfrey Maurice). Priest and martyr, ... |
John Cantius, SaintSt. John CantiusBorn at Kenty, near Oswiecim, Diocese of Krakow, Poland, 1412 (or 1403); died at Krakow, 1473, ... |
John Capistran, SaintSt. John CapistranBorn at Capistrano, in the Diocese of Sulmona, Italy, 1385; died 23 October, 1456. His father had ... |
John Chrysostom, SaintSt. John Chrysostom( Chrysostomos , "golden-mouthed" so called on account of his eloquence). Doctor of the ... |
John Climacus, SaintSt. John ClimacusAlso surnamed SCHOLASTICUS, and THE SINAITA, b. doubtlessly in Syria, about 525; d. on Mount ... |
John Colombini, BlessedBl. John ColombiniFounder of the Congregation of Jesuati; b. at Siena, Upper Italy, about 1300; d. on the way to ... |
John Cornelius and Companions, VenerableVen. John Cornelius and CompanionsJohn Cornelius (called also Mohun) was born of Irish parents at Bodmin, in Cornwall, on the ... |
John Damascene, SaintSaint John DamasceneBorn at Damascus, about 676; died some time between 754 and 787. The only extant life of the ... |
John de Britto, BlessedSt. John de BrittoMartyr ; born in Lisbon, 1 March, 1647, and was brought up in court; martyred in India 11 ... |
John Felton, BlessedBl. John FeltonMartyr, date and place of birth unknown, was executed in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 8 ... |
John Fisher, SaintSt. John FisherCardinal, Bishop of Rochester, and martyr ; born at Beverley, Yorkshire, England, 1459 ... |
John Forest, BlessedBl. John ForestBorn in 1471, presumably at Oxford, where his surname was then not unknown; suffered 22 May, ... |
John Francis Regis, SaintSt. John Francis RegisBorn 31 January, 1597, in the village of Fontcouverte (department of Aude); died at la Louvesc, 30 ... |
John Hambley, VenerableVen. John HambleyEnglish martyr (suffered 1587), born and educated in Cornwall, and converted by reading one ... |
John I, Pope SaintPope St. John IDied at Ravenna on 18 or 19 May (according to the most popular calculation), 526. A Tuscan by ... |
John II, PopePope John II(533-535). The date of the birth of this pope is not known. He was a Roman and the son of ... |
John III, PopePope John III(561-574). A Roman surnamed Catelinus, d. 13 July, 574. He was of a distinguished family, ... |
John Ingram, VenerableVen. John IngramEnglish martyr, born at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, in 1565; executed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 ... |
John IV, PopePope John IV(640-642). A native of Dalmatia, and the son of the scholasticus (advocate) Venantius. The ... |
John IX, PopePope John IX(898-900). Not only is the date of John's birth unknown, but the date of his election as ... |
John Joseph of the Cross, SaintSt. John Joseph of the CrossBorn on the Island of Ischia, Southern Italy, 1654; d. 5 March, 1739. From his earliest years ... |
John Larke, BlessedBl. John LarkeEnglish martyr ; died at Tyburn, 7 March, 1543-4. He was rector of St. Ethelburga's ... |
John MalalasJohn MalalasA Monophysite Byzantine chronicler of the sixth century, born at Antioch where he spent most if ... |
John Nelson, BlessedBlessed John NelsonEnglish Jesuit martyr, b. at Skelton, four miles from York, in 1534; d. at Tyburn, 3 February, ... |
John Nepomucene, SaintSt. John NepomuceneBorn at Nepomuk about 1340; died 20 March, 1393. The controversy concerning the identity of John ... |
John of AntiochJohn of AntiochThere are four persons commonly known by this name. I John, Patriarch of Antioch ... |
John of Avila, BlessedBl. John of AvilaApostolic preacher of Andalusia and author, b. at Almodóvar del Campo, a small town in ... |
John of Beverley, SaintSaint John of BeverleyBishop of Hexham and afterwards of York; b. at Harpham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire; d. at ... |
John of BiclaroJohn of Biclaro(Johannes Biclariensis.) Chronicler, born in Portugal, probably about the middle of the sixth ... |
John of CornwallJohn of Cornwall(JOHANNES CORNUBIENSIS, JOHANNES DE SANCTO GERMANO). John of Cornwall lived about 1176. He was ... |
John of EphesusJohn of Ephesus(Also known as JOHN OF ASIA). The earliest, and a very famous, Syriac historian. He was born ... |
John of FécampJohn of Fecamp(Also known as JEANNELIN on account of his diminutive stature). Ascetic writer, b. near Ravenna ... |
John of FalkenbergJohn of FalkenbergAuthor, b. at Falkenberg, Pomerania, Prussia, date unknown; d. about 1418 in Italy &151; ... |
John of Fermo, BlessedBlessed John of FermoMore often called JOHN OF LA VERNA, from his long sojourn on that holy mountain, b. at Fermo ... |
John of GenoaJohn of Genoa(Often called Balbi, or de Balbis.) Grammarian; born at Genoa, date unknown; died there ... |
John of God, SaintSt. John of GodBorn at Montemor o Novo, Portugal, 8 March, 1495, of devout Christian parents ; died at ... |
John of HautevilleJohn of HautevilleMoralist and satirical poet of the twelfth century (flourished about 1184). Little is known of his ... |
John of JandunoJohn of JandunoAn Averroistic philosopher, theologian, and political writer of the fourteenth century. John of ... |
John of MontecorvinoJohn of MontecorvinoA Franciscan and founder of the Catholic mission in China, b. at Montecorvino in Southern ... |
John of MontesonoJohn of MontesonoTheologian and controversialist, born at Monzón, Spain ; dates of birth and death ... |
John of NikiûJohn of NikiuAn Egyptian chronicler who flourished in the latter part of the seventh century. The little we ... |
John of ParisJohn of Paris( Called also Quidort and de Soardis). Theologian and controversialist; born at Paris, ... |
John of Parma, BlessedBlessed John of ParmaMinister General of the Friars Minor (1247-1257), b. at Parma about 1209; d. at Camerino 19 ... |
John of RagusaJohn of Ragusa(Sometimes confounded with John of Segovia ). A Dominican theologian, president of the ... |
John of Roquetaillade (de Rupescissa)John of Roquetaillade (De Rupescissa)Franciscan alchemist, date of birth unknown; d. probably at Avignon, 1362. After pursuing the ... |
John of RupellaJohn of RupellaFranciscan theologian, b. at La Rochelle (Rupella), towards the end of the twelfth century; d. ... |
John of Sahagun, SaintSaint John of SahagunHermit, b. 1419, at Sahagún (or San Fagondez) in the Kingdom of Leon, in Spain ; d. 11 ... |
John of Saint ThomasJohn of St. Thomas(Family name John Poinsot), theologian, born at Lisbon, 9 June, 1589; died at Fraga, Spain, 17 ... |
John of SalisburyJohn of Salisbury(JOHANNES DE SARESBERIA, surnamed PARVUS). Born about 1115; died 1180; a distinguished ... |
John of SegoviaJohn of SegoviaA Spanish theologian, b. at Segovia towards the end of the fourteenth century; d. probably in ... |
John of the Cross, SaintSt. John of the CrossFounder (with St. Teresa) of the Discalced Carmelites, doctor of mystic theology, b. at ... |
John of VictringJohn of Victring(JOHANNES VICTORENSIS or DE VICTORIA). Chronicler, b. probably between 1270 and 1280; d. at ... |
John of WinterthurJohn of Winterthur(Johannes Vitoduranus.) Historian, born about 1300 at Winterthur (Switzerland); died ... |
John ParvusJohn ParvusCalled in his day, JEHAN PETIT or LE PETIT. A French theologian and professor in the ... |
John Payne, BlessedBl. John PayneBorn in the Diocese of Peterborough ; died at Chelmsford, 2 April, 1582. He went to Douai in ... |
John Rigby, SaintSt. John RigbyEnglish martyr ; b. about 1570 at Harrocks Hall, Eccleston, Lancashire; executed at St. Thomas ... |
John Roberts, SaintSt. John RobertsFirst Prior of St. Gregory's, Douai (now Downside Abbey ), b. 1575-6; martyred 10 ... |
John Rochester, BlessedBl. John RochesterPriest and martyr, born probably at Terling, Essex, England, about 1498; died at York, 11 May, ... |
John Sarkander, BlessedBl. John SarkanderMartyr of the seal of confession, born at Skotschau in Austrian Silesia, 20 Dec., 1576; died at ... |
John ScholasticusJohn Scholasticus( ho Scholastikos ; also called J OHN OF A NTIOCH ) Patriarch of Constantinople (J OHN ... |
John Shert, BlessedBl. John ShertA native of Cheshire; took the degree of B.A. at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1566. Successively ... |
John Stone, BlessedBl. John StoneEnglish martyr, executed at the Dane-John, Canterbury, probably in December, 1539, for denying ... |
John Story, BlessedBl. John Story( Or Storey.) Martyr ; born 1504; died at Tyburn, 1 June, 1571. He was educated at ... |
John TalaiaJohn TalaiaOrthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (481-482) at the time of the Monophysite troubles. He had ... |
John the Almsgiver, SaintSt. John the Almsgiver(JOANNES ELEEMOSYNARIUS; JOANNES MISERICORS). Patriarch of Alexandria (606-16), b. at Amathus ... |
John the Baptist, SaintSt. John the BaptistThe principal sources of information concerning the life and ministry of St. John the Baptist are ... |
John the DeaconJohn the Deacon(J OHANNES D IACONUS ). Among the writers of the Middle Ages who bear this name, four ... |
John the Evangelist, SaintSt. John the EvangelistI. New Testament Accounts II. The Alleged Presbyter John III. The Later Accounts of John IV. Feasts ... |
John the FasterJohn the Faster( ‘o nesteutés, jejunator ) Patriarch of Constantinople (John IV, 582-595), ... |
John the Silent, SaintJohn the Silent(Hesychastes, Silentiarius). Bishop of Colonia, in Armenia, b. at Nicopolis, Armenia, 8 ... |
John Twenge, SaintSt. John TwengeLast English saint canonized, canon regular, Prior of St. Mary's, Bridlington, b. near the ... |
John V, PopePope John V(685-686). A Syrian whose father was one Cyriacus; when he was born is not known; d. 2 ... |
John VI, PopePope John VI(701-705). A Greek, the date of whose birth is unknown; d. 11 January, 705. He ascended the ... |
John VII, PopePope John VII(705-707). The year of his birth is unknown; d. 18 October, 707. Few particulars of his life ... |
John VIII, PopePope John VIII(Reigned 872-82) A Roman and the son of Gundus. He seems to have been born in the first ... |
John X, PopePope John XBorn at Tossignano, Romagna; enthroned, 914; died at Rome, 928. First a deacon, he became ... |
John XI, PopePope John XIDate of birth unknown, became pope in 931; d. 936. He was the son of Marozia by her first ... |
John XII, PopePope John XIIDate of birth unknown; reigned 955-64. The younger Alberic, after the downfall of his mother, ... |
John XIII, PopePope John XIIIDate of birth unknown; enthroned on 1 Oct., 965; d. 6 Sept., 972. After the death of John XII ... |
John XIV, PopePope John XIVDate of birth unknown; d. 984. After the death of Benedict VII, Bishop Peter Campanora of Pavia, ... |
John XIX (XX), PopePope John XIX (XX)Enthroned in 1024; d. 1032. After the death of the last patricius of the House of Crescentius, ... |
John XV (XVI), PopePope John XV (XVI)Enthroned 985; d. April, 996. After John XIV had been removed by force, the usurper, Boniface ... |
John XVI (XVII)Antipope John XVI (XVII)Antipope 997-998; d. probably in 1013. After the death of John XV, Bruno, a relative of Otto ... |
John XVII (XVIII), PopePope John XVII (XVIII)Date of birth unknown; d. 6 Nov., 1003. When Sylvester II died on 12 May, 1003, there was no ... |
John XVIII (XIX), PopePope John XVIII (XIX)Successor of John XVII, consecrated Christmas, 1003; d. June, 1009. He was the son of a Roman ... |
John XXI (XX), PopePope John XXI (XX)Born at Lisbon between 1210 and 1220; enthroned, 1276; died at Viterbo, 20 May, 1277. The son ... |
John XXII, PopePope John XXII(JACQUES D'EUSE) Born at Cahors in 1249; enthroned, 5 September, 1316; died at Avignon, 4 ... |
John XXIIIAntipope John XXIIIAntipope of the Pisan party (1400-15), b. about 1370; d. 22 November, 1419. Cardinal Baldassare ... |
John, Epistles ofEpistles of Saint JohnThree canonical books of the New Testament written by the Apostle St. John. The subject will ... |
John, Gospel ofGospel of Saint JohnThis subject will be considered under the following heads: I. Contents and Scheme of the ... |
Johnson, Blessed RobertBl. Robert JohnsonBorn in Shropshire, entered the German College, Rome, 1 October, 1571. Ordained priest at ... |
Johnson, Blessed ThomasBl. Thomas JohnsonCarthusian martyr, died in Newgate gaol, London, 20 September, 1537. On 18 May, 1537, the twenty ... |
Johnson, Lionel PigotLionel Pigot JohnsonBorn at Broadstairs on the Kentish coast, 15 Mar., 1867; died 4 Oct., 1902. He was the youngest ... |
Johnston, Richard MalcolmRichard Malcolm JohnstonEducator, author, b. 8 March, 1822, at Powellton, Georgia, U.S.A.; d. at Baltimore, Maryland, 23 ... |
Joinville, Jean, Sire deJean, Sire de JoinvilleSeneschal of Champagne, historian, b. in 1225; d. at Joinville, 1317. His family held an ... |
Joliet, LouisLouis Joliet(Or JOLLIET). Louis Joliet, a discoverer and the son of a wagon-maker, was born at Quebec, ... |
JolietteJoliette(JOLIETTENSIS). Diocese created by Pius X , 27 January, 1904 by division of the Archdiocese ... |
Jolly, Philipp Johann Gustav vonPhilipp Johann Gustav von JollyGerman physicist, born at Mannheim, 26 September, 1809; died at Munich, 24 December, 1884. His ... |
JonasJonahThe fifth of the Minor Prophets. The name is usually taken to mean "dove", but in view of the ... |
Jonas of BobbioJonas of Bobbio(Or Jonas of Susa ) Monk and hagiographer, b. about the close of the sixth century at ... |
Jonas of OrléansJonas of OrleansBishop and ecclesiastical writer, born in Aquitaine; died in 843 or 844. From 818, when he ... |
JonathanJonathan(Hebrew, " Yahweh hath given", cf. Theodore; Septuagint 'Ionáthan .) Name of several ... |
Jones, InigoInigo JonesA famous English architect, b. 15 July, 1573, in London ; d. 21 June, 1652, and was buried in ... |
Jones, Venerable EdwardVen. Edward JonesPriest and martyr, b. in the Diocese of St. Asaph, Wales, date unknown; d. in London, 6 May ... |
Jordan, TheThe Jordan(In Hebrew Yâdên, from the root Yârâd, to descend). The difference ... |
JordanisJordanis (Jornandes)Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire. His family ... |
Jordanus of GianoJordanus of Giano(DE JANO). Italian Minorite, b. at Giano in the Valley of Spoleto, c. 1195; d. after 1262. ... |
JornandesJordanis (Jornandes)Historian, lived about the middle of the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire. His family ... |
JosaphatJosaphat( Hebrew for " Yahweh hath judged"; Septuagint 'Iosaphát ). Fourth King of Juda ... |
Josaphat and BarlaamBarlaam and JosaphatThe principal characters of a legend of Christian antiquity, which was a favourite subject of ... |
Josaphat Kuncevyc, SaintSt. Josaphat KuncevycMartyr, born in the little town of Volodymyr in Lithuania (Volyn) in 1580 or -- according to ... |
Josaphat, Valley ofValley of Josaphat(JEHOSHAPHAT). Mentioned in only one passage of the Bible ( Joel 3 -- Hebrew text, 4). In ... |
JosephJosephThe eleventh son of Jacob, the firstborn of Rachel, and the immediate ancestor of the tribes ... |
Joseph Calasanctius of the Mother of God, Pious Workers of SaintPious Workers of St. Joseph CalasanctiusFounded at Vienna, 24 November, 1889, by Father Anton Maria Schwartz for all works of charity, ... |
Joseph Calasanctius, SaintSt. Joseph CalasanctiusCalled in religion "a Matre Dei", founder of the Piarists, b. 11 Sept., 1556, at the castle of ... |
Joseph IIJoseph II(1741-90). German Emperor (reigned 1765-90), of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, son and ... |
Joseph of ArimatheaJoseph of ArimatheaAll that is known for certain concerning him is derived from the canonical Gospels. He was born ... |
Joseph of Cupertino, SaintSt. Joseph of CupertinoMystic, born 17 June, 1603; died at Osimo 18 September, 1663; feast, 18 September. Joseph ... |
Joseph of ExeterJoseph of Exeter(JOSEPHUS ISCANUS.) A twelfth-century Latin poet; b. at Exeter, England. About 1180 he went ... |
Joseph of IssacharJoseph of IssacharA man of the tribe of Issachar, and the father of Igal who was one of the spies sent by Moses ... |
Joseph of Leonessa, SaintSt. Joseph of LeonessaIn the world named Eufranio Desiderio; born in 1556 at Leonessa in Umbria; died 4 February, ... |
Joseph's Society for Colored Missions, SaintSt. Joseph's Society For Colored MissionsThis organization began its labours in 1871, when four young priests from Mill Hill were put in ... |
Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions, SaintSt. Joseph's Society For Foreign Missions(Mill Hill, London, N.W.) A society of priests and laymen whose object is to labour for ... |
Joseph, SaintSt. JosephSpouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ . LIFE Sources ... |
Joseph, Sisters of SaintSisters of Saint JosephCONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH Founded at Le Puy, in Velay, France, by the Rev. ... |
JosephitesJosephites(Sons of St. Joseph) A congregation devoted to the Christian education of youth, founded in ... |
Josephus, FlaviusFlavius JosephusJewish historian, born A.D. 37, at Jerusalem ; died about 101. He belonged to a distinguished ... |
JoshuaJosue (Joshua)The name of eight persons in the Old Testament, and of one of the Sacred Books. ( ... |
JosiasJosias(J OSIAH – Hebrew for " Yahweh supports"; Septuagint 'Iosías ). A pious ... |
JosueJosue (Joshua)The name of eight persons in the Old Testament, and of one of the Sacred Books. ( ... |
Joubert, JosephJoseph JoubertFrench philosopher ; b. at Martignac (Dordogne), 7 May, 1754, d. at Villeneuve-le-Roi (Yonne), 4 ... |
Jouffroy, Claude-François-Dorothée deClaude-Francois-Dorothee de JouffroyM ARQUIS d' A BBANS . Mechanician, b. at Abbans, near Besançon, 30 Sept., 1751; d. ... |
Jouffroy, Jean deJean de JouffroyFrench prelate and statesman; b. at Luxeuil (Franche-Comté) about 1412; d. at the priory ... |
Jouin, LouisLouis JouinLinguist, philosopher, author, b. at Berlin, 14 June, 1818, d. at New York, 10 June, 1899. He ... |
Jouvancy, Joseph deJoseph de Jouvancy(JOSEPHUS JUVENCIUS). Poet, pedagogue, philologist, and historian, b. at Paris, 14 September, ... |
Jouvenet, JeanJean JouvenetSurnamed T HE G REAT . French painter, b. at Rouen in 1644, d. at Paris, 5 April, 1717. ... |
Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor deGaspar Melchor de Jovellanos(Also written JOVE-LLANOS). Spanish statesman and man of letters, at Gijon, Asturias, 5 Jan., ... |
Jovianus, Flavius ClaudiusFlavius Claudius JovianusRoman Emperor, 363-4. After the death of Julian the Apostate (26 June, 363), the army making ... |
JovinianusJovianusAn opponent of Christian asceticism in the fourth century, condemned as a heretic (390). Our ... |
Jovius, PaulusPaulus Jovius(GIOVIO). Historian, b. at Como, Italy, 9 April, 1483, d. at Florence, 11 Dec., 1552. Having ... |
Joyeuse, Henri, Duc deHenri, Duc de JoyeuseBorn in 1563 and not, as is mistakenly stated in the "Biographic Michaud ", in 1567; died at ... |
Juan Bautista de ToledoJuan Bautista de ToledoAn eminent Spanish sculptor and architect; b. at Madrid (date not known); d. there 19 May, ... |
Jubilate SundayJubilate SundayThe third Sunday after Easter, being so named from the first word of the Introit at Mass ... |
Jubilee, Holy Year ofHoly Year of JubileeThe ultimate derivation of the word jubilee is disputed, but it is most probable that the ... |
Jubilee, Year of (Hebrew)Year of Jubilee (Hebrew)According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year is the year that ... |
Jubilees, Book ofBook of Jubilees( ta Iobelaia ). An apocryphal writing, so called from the fact that the narratives and ... |
JudaJudaThe name of one of the Patriarchs, the name of the tribe reputed to be descended from him, the ... |
JudaismJudaismAt the present day, the term designates the religious communion which survived the destruction of ... |
JudaizersJudaizers(From Greek Ioudaizo , to adopt Jewish customs -- Esther 8:17 ; Galatians 2:14 ). A ... |
Judas IscariotJudas IscariotThe Apostle who betrayed his Divine Master . The name Judas ( Ioudas ) is the Greek form of ... |
Judas MachabeusJudas MachabeusThird son of the priest Mathathias who with his family was the centre and soul of the ... |
Judde, ClaudeClaude JuddeFrench preacher and spiritual father; born at Rouen, about 20 December, 1661; died at Paris, ... |
Jude, Epistle of SaintEpistle of Saint JudeThe present subject will be treated under the following heads: I. The Author and the ... |
JudeaJudeaLike the adjective Ioudaios , the noun Ioudaia comes from the Aramæan Iehûdai ... |
Judge, EcclesiasticalEcclesiastical Judge(J UDEX E CCLESIASTICUS ) An ecclesiastical person who possesses ecclesiastical ... |
Judges, The Book ofJudgesThe seventh book of the Old Testament , second of the Early Prophets of the Hebrew canon. I. ... |
Judgment, DivineDivine JudgmentThis subject will be treated under two heads: I. Divine Judgment Subjectively and Objectively ... |
Judgment, GeneralGeneral Judgment (Last Judgment)(Judicium Universale, Last Judgment). I. EXISTENCE OF THE GENERAL JUDGMENT 1 Few truths are ... |
Judgment, LastGeneral Judgment (Last Judgment)(Judicium Universale, Last Judgment). I. EXISTENCE OF THE GENERAL JUDGMENT 1 Few truths are ... |
Judgment, ParticularParticular JudgmentA. Dogma of Particular Judgment The Catholic doctrine of the particular judgment is this: that ... |
Judica SundayJudica SundayName given to the fifth Sunday of Lent, and derived from the first words of the Introit of ... |
Judith, Book ofBook of JudithHISTORY Nabuchodonosor, King of Nineveh, sends his general Holofernes to subdue the Jews. The ... |
Julia Billiart, SaintSaint Julie Billiart( Also Julia). Foundress, and first superior-general of the Congregation of the Sisters of ... |
Julian and Basilissa, SaintsSaints Julian and BasilissaHusband and wife; died at Antioch or, more probably, at Antinoe, in the reign of Diocletian, ... |
Julian of EclanumJulian of EclanumBorn about 386; died in Sicily, 454; the most learned among the leaders of the Pelagian ... |
Julian of SpeyerJulian of SpeyerOften called J ULIANUS T EUTONICUS . A famous composer, poet, and historian of the ... |
Julian the ApostateJulian the Apostate(FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS). Roman emperor 361-63, b. at Constantinople in 331, d. 26 June, ... |
Juliana Falconieri, SaintSt. Juliana FalconieriBorn in 1270; died 12 June, 1341. Juliana belonged to the noble Florentine family of Falconieri. ... |
Juliana of Liège, SaintSt. Juliana of LiegeNun, b. at Retinnes, near Liège, Belgium, 1193; d. at Fosses, 5 April, 1258. At the age ... |
Juliana of NorwichJuliana of NorwichEnglish mystic of the fourteenth century, author or recipient of the vision contained in the book ... |
Juliana, SaintSt. JulianaSuffered martyrdom during the Diocletian persecution. Both the Latin and Greek Churches mention ... |
Julie Billiart, SaintSaint Julie Billiart( Also Julia). Foundress, and first superior-general of the Congregation of the Sisters of ... |
JuliopolisJuliopolisTitular see in the province of Bithynia Secunda, suffragan of Nicaea. The city was founded under ... |
Julitta and QuiricusSts. Quiricus and JulittaMartyred under Diocletian. The names of these two martyrs, who in the early Church enjoyed a ... |
Julius AfricanusJulius Africanus(c. 160-c. 240; the full name is Sextus Iulius Africanus, Greek Sextos Ioulios Aphrikanos ). ... |
Julius I, Pope SaintPope Saint Julius I(337-352). The immediate successor of Pope Silvester, Arcus, ruled the Roman Church for ... |
Julius II, PopePope Julius II(GIULIANO DELLA ROVERE). Born on 5 December, 1443, at Albissola near Savona; crowned on 28 ... |
Julius III, PopeJulius III(GIAMMARIA CIOCCHI DEL MONTE). Born at Rome, 10 September, 1487; died there, 23 March, 1555. ... |
Jumièges, Abbey ofBenedictine Abbey of JumiegesJumièges, situated on the north bank of the Seine, between Duclair and Caudebec, in ... |
Junípero SerraJunipero SerraBorn at Petra, Island of Majorca, 24 November, 1713; died at Monterey, California, 28 August, ... |
Jungmann, BernardBernard JungmannA dogmatic theologian and ecclesiastical historian, born at Münster in Westphalia, 1 ... |
Jungmann, JosefJosef JungmannBorn 12 Nov., 1830, at Münster, Westphalia ; died at Innsbruck, 25 Nov., 1885. In 1850 he ... |
Jurisdiction, EcclesiasticalEcclesiastical JurisdictionThe right to guide and rule the Church of God. The subject is here treated under the following ... |
Jus SpoliiJus Spolii(RIGHT OF SPOIL; also called JUS EXUVIARUM and RAPITE CAPITE) Jus Spolii, a claim, exercised in ... |
Jussieu, DeDe JussieuName of five French botanists. (1) ANTOINE DE JUSSIEU, physician and botanist, b. at Lyons, ... |
JusteJusteThe name conventionally applied to a family of Italian sculptors, whose real name was Betti, ... |
JusticeJusticeJustice is here taken in its ordinary and proper sense to signify the most important of the ... |
JustificationJustification(Latin justificatio ; Greek dikaiosis .) A biblio-ecclesiastical term; which denotes the ... |
Justin de Jacobis, BlessedBlessed Justin de JacobisVicar Apostolic of Abyssinia and titular Bishop of Nilopolis, h. at San Fele, Province of ... |
Justin Martyr, SaintSt. Justin MartyrChristian apologist, born at Flavia Neapolis, about A.D. 100, converted to Christianity about ... |
Justina and Cyprian, SaintsSts. Cyprian and JustinaChristians of Antioch who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Diocletian at ... |
Justinian IJustinian IRoman Emperor (527-65) Flavius Anicius Julianus Justinianus was born about 483 at Tauresium ... |
Justiniani, BenedettoBenedetto Justiniani(GIUSTINIANI). Theological and Biblical writer, born at Genoa, about the year 1550; died at ... |
Justiniani, NicholasNicholas JustinianiDate of birth unknown, became monk in the Benedictine monastery of San Niccoló del Lido ... |
JustinianopolisJustinianopolisA titular see of Armenia Prima, suffragan of Sebaste. This see is better known in history ... |
Justus, SaintSt. JustusFourth Archbishop of Canterbury ; died 627 (?). For the particulars of his life we are almost ... |
Juvencus, C. Vettius AquilinusJuvencusChristian Latin poet of the fourth century. Of his life we know only what St. Jerome tells us ... |
Juvenile CourtsJuvenile CourtsTribunals for the trial of children charged with crimes or offences. The maximum age is usually ... |
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