Pope Leo XIV announced July 31 that he will name Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman a Doctor of the Church, making him the 38th saint and only the second Englishman in Church history, after Saint Bede the Venerable, to enjoy the rare honor.
Cardinal Newman was a prominent Anglican prelate and a leader in the Oxford Movement, a group of Protestant scholars who sought to reconnect modern Christian thought with the writings of the Church Fathers.
It was in the context of his work in that movement that Newman shocked the Anglosphere with the announcement that he would defect from the Church of England and join the Roman Catholic Church.
“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant,” he famously explained.
Here are five other quotations, including a couple of prayers, from this saint and soon-to-be Doctor of the Church: