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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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John Henry Newman’s Second Journey to Rome: 1846-1847April 29, 2021In 1846 Newman traveled to Rome a second time, specifically for his seminary studies in preparation for his ordination as a Catholic priest. […]
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