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A Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, England
As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time.
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Blessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry Newman
Just last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer.
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Letter from a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins to Ignatius Ryder
Just seven months before his death, the now famous poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, penned the following letter to Henry “Ignatius” Ryder.
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Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.
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A Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, EnglandSeptember 9, 2021As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time. […]
Reading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of The Apocalypse of WisdomAugust 18, 2021The primary purpose of Lemna's masterful book The Apocalypse of Wisdom: Louis Bouyer's Theological Recovery of the Cosmos is to shed light on the "twists and turns of the path Bouyer charts in Cosmos" (xiii). […]
Pusey’s 1843 Sermon on the Eucharist: A Rejected Eucharistic TheologyAugust 11, 2021This article aims to understand why a defense of a corporeal, real presence of Christ in the sacrament was problematic in nineteenth-century England. […]
The “Happy Months” of Newman at the College of Propaganda in Rome (1846–1847)August 4, 2021Tuninetti argues that at the College in Rome he eventually found, and was profoundly attracted by, what he had long been looking for: the opportunity to participate in the daily life of an established Catholic community—at a time when he was considering his own vocation within the Church of Rome. […]
Newman’s Campaign in Ireland: A Review of Paul Shrimpton’s New EditionJuly 28, 2021The newest volume in the Birmingham Oratory’s Millennial Edition of Newman’s works published My Campaign Part I for the first time. […]