Newman is to be Beatified!
On the 19th September 2010 John Henry Newman will be raised to the honour of the altars by Pope Benedict XVI in a Solemn Mass at Coventry.

Dear Newman Friends,

After many years of expectation and prayer it is a great joy for us to share this news with you. Indeed, we had decided not to send our newsletter until the venue and date of the beatification was confirmed and made public.

Dr. Brigitte Maria Hoegemann FSO Long before the Anglo-Catholic Oxford don actually saw the city, its name must have resonated with John Henry Newman, evoking not just images of the ancient city, kingdom, republic and empire, its history of three thousand years, its rise and the fall, but also its huge claim to power and its unique culture of antiquity both pagan and Christian. …

Dr. Philip Boyce O.C.D. Bishop of Raphoe, Ireland A widespread interest in prayer has been noticeable over the past fewdecades. As Western society has progressed at an unprecedented rate inscience and technology, giving modern man an abundance of materialwelfare and comfort, it has increasingly felt the incapacity of these things …