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Vovement For Canonisation of Cardinal newrinan UNITED STATES CATHOLICS' ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL
England Echoes American Sentiments An enthusiastic and widespread response has come from priests, leading authors, editors, professors, and teachers in the United States to the suggestion that Canonisation should be sought for Cardinal Newman. Letters too numerous to print in full, all backing up the proposal, have been received by "America." national Jesuit weekly, which published the original suggestion from Father Charles Callan, an American Dominican. Letters in recent issues of the London "Universe" indicate that Catholics in that country are as enthusiastic as those in
order that miracles may be worked through his intercession, the editors of "America" added that as far as human minds could discern, all the elements of sanctity were to be found in the life of Cardinal Newman. Leading Catholic authors, editors and ecclesiastics added their approval to that of "An: she erica" in letters from all parts
the States. The only surprise the suggestion has aroused is that it was not made before. "Of course. Why did I not think of that before?" writes Mr. Thomas "We ordinary Woodlock in the New York "Wall Street Journal." laymen can find it very easy to accept the presence of 'heroism' in the great Cardinal's personal life and to have every hope of its final recognition by the Church."
Many of these stress in particular Newman's humble submission to authority on occasions when he knew that he was in the right. "Each time he was ordered to hand over a bril- now. "To see him led, or rather borne, into liantly begun task to less capable hands," said the editorial secretary of the Oratory chapel by two stalwart the Catholic Book Club, New York, members of the community is a spec"he did not seek easy solace in com- tacle of pathetic interest. His venerplaints and self-pity, but bowed quietly able frame is bowed and frail, and it to neat must often have seemed the in- seems that without this support he must fall to his knees. scrutable will of his Master." "When he has ascended the steps of Cardinal Newman, eldest of a family of three brothers and three sisters, was the pulpit and commences a brief discourse, it is found that, strain your ears born on February 21, 1801, and died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on August 11, as you will, you cannot catch more than 1890. The life -story of the great Eng- an occasional syllable unless you haplish Cardinal is well known to most pen to have been favoured with a seat Catholics. John Henry Newman was directly under the pulpit.. "The voice is sweet and gentle, but the first Rector, incidentally, of the Cathe articulation is imperfect, and as A contholic University of Dublin. the discourse progresses it becomes vert, a late vocation for the priesthood, a student of Propaganda College in more so. But there is the same strong face, the same resolute, piercing eye Rome, after a lifetime of humiliations and contradictions, he was at length which marked the man who carried on the greatest controversy of our time, Leo given the signal honour by Pope XIII of being created a Cardinal, and the hearer is spellbound in gazing at those deeply graven, thoughtful feathough only a simple priest. The "Universe" recalls the simple tures. 'His Eminence preached last on the piety of the Cardinal's life in the folday of the Pope's (Leo XII's) iubilee, lowing account of his second last birthand spoke with unusual fervour, standday, in 1888. The birthday, it says, was celebrated ing unaided, by dint of a wonderful strength of will, for 25 minutes on the "with a rigorous simplicity." "Cardinal Newman rose early, long .lancel step. . . (Continued on Back Cover.) before day began to dawn, and said
Much the same remark is made by the "Catholic Universe Bulletin," official newspaper of the Cleveland diocese, and it goes on to say: "In our every glimpse of that perfect stylist the saintliness of the writer was there ready to burst through the written page, but we did not see it in the lines nor between the lines until now our attention is forcibly drawn to it by another.
cause he shares with us a common tongue." The suggestion was first made a couple of months ago in the U.S. Jesuit weekly, "America," by Rev. C. Callan, O.P. "If we but examine the life and works of this extraordinary Churchman," he wrote, "I think we shall find that he has all the qualifications which will entitle him to this singular place . That he has fulfilled and honour. the requirements of holiness is, in our and opinion, clear in a general way it becomes more convincing and more manifest, we think, as we go over in detail any one of the biographies of the man, and ponder the many works and treatises he has left us. "The pursuit of holiness and personal sanctity was the pre -occupation of his whole life and the explanation of all fire with love for God and for his fellowmen." Expressing their agreement with Father Callan's appeal for more prayers and devotion to Cardinal Newman in .
"Very Close To Us." "The spirituality of Newman is so quiet and natural that we merely mistook it for great literature. The mistake can now be rectified. "The canonisation of Cardinal Newman, if it is in the designs of Divine Providence that he should be formally made a saint, will bring the realisation of sainthood very close to us. -That in effect came from raising St. Therese, the Little Flower, to the honours of the altar. Both of them, broadly speaking, are our contemporaries, but Newman appears closer be-
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J\OHN HENRY 'CARDINAL NEW MAN. Mass in his private room." He attended another Mass in the Oratory chapel, and then went through the
numerous letters and telegrams of congratulations that were coming in from many parts of the world. The Cardinal, we are told, was "in exceedingly good health for a man of his years," but was "getting very feeble
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