In his book Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI remarked that the lives of the saints are the greatest commentary on the truths of the Gospel. This Sunday, as the Church gathers with the Holy Father for the beatification of John Henry Newman, we shall rejoice in Newman’s exemplary response to the Word of God. We should not forget that Newman’s first serious engagement with the Christian faith, as a schoolboy, was as an evangelical within the Church of England. Here, he first encountered the love of Christ revealed in the scriptures, a love that was to become the guiding light of his life.