A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought, edited by Juan R Vélez

A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought

Juan R Vélez (ed)

Catholic University of America Press,$75, 448 pages

Just when you thought all the books about John Henry Newman had been written, along comes this enormous offering from Fr Juan Vélez: huge in scope and in the breadth of its contributors, who come from the US, UK, France, Spain, Australia and Macao. Fr Vélez makes a point of noting in his introduction that the purpose of the essays is “to advance scholarship on Newman in keeping with his well-deserved place of honour” – which is to say his relatively new status as a canonised saint of the Church.