4 good links
- The National Institute for Newman Studies
A scholarly approach to studying Newman's impact
- Newman Reader
The spot to find Newman's own writings online
- The Conversion of John Henry Newman
Detailed 1999 essay sums up the conversion and the controversy
- The Venerable John Henry Newman Association
Includes a biography and resources for Newman scholars
John Henry Newman Biography
John Henry Newman was a leading priest in the Church of England whose conversion to Catholicism was a major event of the 1840s. Newman was a popular speaker and a scholar at Oxford, making his conversion all the more welcome to Catholics and shocking to Anglicans. Newman had been ordained as an Anglican priest in 1825; he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1847, and in 1879 he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. His Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) is considered a classic among religious autobiographies.
Extra credit:
Newman is sometimes compared with C.S. Lewis, also an Oxford scholar and a famous 20th-century convert to Christianity.
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