Come Nov. 1, St. John Henry Newman will be a doctor of the Church. The official designation, given out by the Catholic Church to only 37 holy geniuses before him, will enshrine the 19th-century ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday approved the decision to declare St. John Henry Newman the 38th doctor of the universal Church. The decision to confer the title upon the 19th-century English saint — a former ...

St. John Henry Newman, Father Calvo noted, was a great scholar of the Church Fathers, especially St. Augustine. St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. (photo: Babouba / via Wikimedia ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV on Saturday bestowed one of the Catholic Church's highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, the deeply influential 19th- century British convert and theologian, declaring ...

According to Father Francisco Javier Calvo, Pope Leo XIV’s recent announcement that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church represents “enormous hope,” because his figure is ...

St. John Henry Newman -- the 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism, powerfully shaping religious thought in both faith traditions -- will be ...