Title: The Spiritual Journey of Newman  Author: Jean Honore  Trans.: M. Christopher Ludden, SC ISBN: 0-8189-0654-5  Paperback: xxii + 251 pp.  Price: $14.95 + shipping  To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master or Visa card ready To order online click here.

In the Spring of 1864, a series of articles signed with the illustrious but almost forgotten name of John Henry Newman appeared in the London Press and a masterpiece of religious autobiography -- the Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- was born. Anglicans and Catholics alike suddenly realized that they had interred too quickly this genius and Oxford convert to Catholicism. Newman, the author of the famous hymn, "Lead Kindly Light," spoke in this work of his spiritual journey. Now with the help of new access to his intimate journals, letters and unpublished letters, Archbishop Jean Honore has been able to reconstruct the path he took and the struggle he had to endure.

 

Jean Honore, the recently retired Archbishop of Tours and a member of the Committee which prepared the recently published Catechism of the Catholic Church, completed his studies at the Institut Catholique and was awarded a doctorate in Theology. Along with the present title, he has published several other highly acclaimed works in French on the life and work of Cardinal Newman. Reviews "When John Henry Newman was received into the Catholic Church in 1845 many thought his career would come to an end. After ordination and a dead-end seven years heading the Catholic University of Dublin, it seemed he could go back to the Oratory and 'be hidden with Christ in God.' However, in 1864 he published the Apologia Pro Vita Sua and was plunged back into the limelight. Fascinating as all this glitter, glory and agony is, the spiritual development of the man is even more fascinating. That is what Archbishop Honore investigates in this volume so beautifully translated by Sr. Mary Christopher Ludden, S.C. Studying the published works and unpublished letters, the author shows us a spiritual journey as monumental as St. Augustine's and as moving as that of St. Francis de Sales. Highly recommended!" --Priest "This gracefully written work of 252 pages discloses the prayer-centered spirituality of a man who was a master of the interior life as well as a great polemical thinker." --Brother Romeo J. Bonsaint, S.C. in Brothers "Particularly edifying for our times is the cohabitation of orthodox piety and intellectual genius in the tradition of true doctors of the Faith. The French edition of this book appeared in 1963, but its quality is such that it is not at all dated, and one can be grateful for the fine translation by Sister Mary Christopher Ludden, S.C. The Archbishop of Tours was a member of the Committee which prepared the new Catechism so it is certain that the Church will further enjoy the influence of the luminous soul who never neglected 'the Kindly Light.'" --Rev. George W. Rutler in Homiletic and Pastoral Review Top of Page