John Henry Newman was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI at Mass this morning. Articles on Newman by various writers:
“Newman offers church a candle in the dark”
by Eamon Duffy (The Guardian)
“Stealing Newman”
by Gary Wills (New York Review of Books)
“The papal hijacking of Cardinal Newman”
by John Cornwell (Financial Times)
“John Cornwell’s hijacking of John Henry Newman”
by Robert Barron (ABC News)
“Hijacking or setting him free, Benedict loves Newman”
by John Allen (National Catholic Reporter)
“Was Cardinal John Henry Newman Gay?”
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty (NPR)
“Pope Benedict to beatify a gay saint? A conservative icon? Maybe both”
by David Gibson (Politics Daily”
“The complicated cardinal”
by Edward Jeremy Miller (Philadelphia Enquirer)
Excerpts from Pope Benedict’s sermon on Cardinal John Henry Newman
(Reuters)