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Author: Fr. Nicholas Rouch, STD

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  • Medieval ScienceScience’s Equivocal Crisis
    By Samuel Bellafiore
    September 22, 2022
    This essay seeks to clarify the nature of science. It examines popular approaches to science, these approaches’ potential effects, and the perspective that theology can provide to our potential misunderstandings of science. […]
  • Newman House St. Stephens GreenNewman’s Campaign in Ireland: A Review of Paul Shrimpton’s New Edition (part II)
    By Vincent and Rebecca Vaccaro
    August 30, 2022
    In 2021, the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory and Gracewing Press published My Campaign in Ireland Part I: Catholic University Reports and Other Papers and released the companion volume My Campaign in Ireland Part II: My Connection with the Catholic University in March 2022. […]
  • Volcano eruptionNewman’s Detractors … at NINS?
    By Christopher Cimorelli
    June 8, 2022
    It was all the more remarkable when I discovered a collection of “Newman detractors” on the premises, a collection indicating the conflict between Newman, the champion of Roman Catholicism in England, and mainly evangelical Free Church academics around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. […]
  • Tree of Life Cover PhotoNewman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of Certitude
    By Frederick D. Aquino
    April 27, 2022
    In the scholarly literature, John Locke (1632–1704) features as a formative influence on Newman’s philosophical thought. What usually gets highlighted, for example in the Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, are Newman’s criticism of Locke’s notion of degreed assent and his call for a broader and more nuanced account of the rationality of religious belief. However, some have argued that the Grammar largely focuses on the psychological conditions of religious belief. […]
  • Orthodoxy 2 horsesUnlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry Newman
    By Joan Liguori Perillo
    April 5, 2022
    Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests. […]

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