Newman named co-patron of Catholic education alongside St Thomas Aquinas

The Vatican has announced that Englishman Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman will join the great medieval theologian St Thomas Aquinas as an official co-patron of the Church’s educational mission.

The move coincides with the forthcoming proclamation that Newman will become the 38th Doctor of the Church, to be formally declared at the closing Mass of the Jubilee of the World of Education on 1 November.

The cardinal prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education revealed at a press conference that “the Pope will name St John Henry Newman ‘co-patron of the Church’s educational mission, alongside St Thomas Aquinas’.”