As the Catholic Church proceeds to declare John Henry Newman a saint, some will try to present him as a queer icon. Andrew Sullivan has already done so, writing that Newman’s friendship with Ambrose St John (beside whom Newman was buried) shows “that deep same-sex love was still alive in the highest echelons of the Catholic priesthood, even at the apex of Victorian repression”. Sullivan describes Newman as “part of the reformist and aesthetic Oxford Movement”, a movement “strongly influenced by homosexual men”.
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as the catholic church proceeds to declare john henry newman a saint, some will try to present him as a queer icon. andrew sullivan has alre...
Matthew Schmitz
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