Few modern figures in the Church have united sanctity and intellect so completely, or spoken with such prophetic insight to the crises of faith and education in the modern world.
When Pope Leo XIV declared St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, it marked the culmination of a journey that began with Newman’s canonisation by Pope Francis in 2019.
Newman’s legacy – with the saint recently named Patron of Education – stands at the centre of renewed reflection on conscience, reason and the formation of the whole person.
