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  • Cap and Gown HeaderNewman High: More Lessons for Secondary Teachers
    By Vincent and Rebecca Vaccaro
    November 18, 2020
    John Thompson’s post entitled “Newman High: Some Notes on Newman for Secondary Educators,” raises some important and timely questions for those teaching at the pre-college levels. We write to share one resource and three additional lessons from Newman that may further help secondary educators strengthen their professional practice. […]
  • Dream of GerontiusNewman and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
    By Joanna Bullivant
    November 2, 2020
    Composed in 1900, a decade after the Cardinal’s death, Elgar’s Gerontius is not a collaboration but a new interpretation. What, then, did Newman’s poem mean to Elgar, and how did the composer articulate Newman’s vision musically? […]
  • Christ the KingRevisiting the Threefold Office of Christ in the Church
    By Richard Gaillardetz
    October 22, 2020
    One of the most significant contributions of the Second Vatican Council lay in its appropriation of the tria munera—that is the threefold office of Christ as priest, prophet, and king—as an architectonic structure for reflection on the church. […]
  • Lunar SolsticeIt is Better for Sun and Moon to Drop from Heaven
    By David Mills
    September 11, 2020
    It’s one of Newman’s most notorious lines, and a claim I for one wish were untrue:”The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony […]
  • Probability and Truth - CloudsNewman, Probability, and Truth
    By Stephen M. Fields
    August 17, 2020
    The Grammar of Assent, published in 1870, represents Newman's last major work. As a religious epistemology, it provides systematically thought-through answers to questions that had preoccupied him since his early twenties […]

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