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• Newman 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. […]
• Newman 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? […]
• Revisiting 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. […]
• It 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 […]
• Newman, 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 […]