“Newman was a high profile intellectual and a man of luminous spirituality.”

Benedict XVI’s Homily in Viterbo during his pastoral visit on September 6th.

“I would also like to mention another citizen of Viterbo, Blessed Domenico Bàrberi (1792-1849), the Passionist priest who, in 1845, welcomed John Henry Newman — who later became a cardinal — into the Catholic Church. Newman was a high profile intellectual and a man of luminous spirituality.”