John Henry Newman: becoming Rome's first ecumenical saint
Pope Benedict XVI, is due to carry out a state visit to the UK from September 16 to 19. His programme is to culminate with a public Mass in Coventry, at which he will beatify the ‘Venerable’ John Henry Newman. He will be performing the second stage of the English Cardinal’s Canonisation, or path to sainthood, by virtue of which Newman will be pronounced ‘Blessed’.
The false ecumenical movement in the UK owes much to Newman’s ‘developing doctrine’, which was particularly used in formulating the Agreed Statements of ‘The Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission’ (ARCIC). The visit is expected to boost the popularity of both the clever Anglican distortions of Newman and the old errors of Rome among undiscerning Christians.
