Thanks to your generosity, The Cardinal Newman Society Podcast is reaching thousands of listeners hungry for truth. Recent episodes (on our website) include: The powerful story of Thomas Vander Woude—a father who moved his family so his children could attend faithful Catholic schools and ultimately gave his life saving his […]
In January, just before the March for Life, we convened leaders from Newman Guide Recommended colleges for our annual Presidents Meeting in Washington, D.C. Thanks for making it such a success, by your prayers and contributions! The presidents addressed key topics facing U.S. Catholic higher education, with public policy experts […]
Because of your generosity, 40,000 print copies of the 2025–2026 edition of The Newman Guide are now getting into the hands of high school students across America. And many also received personal notes of encouragement from our supporters! I’m so grateful for the inspiring words to young people discerning their […]
Lent has a way of stripping away distractions and reminding us of what truly matters. The latest scandal at the University of Notre Dame is a prime example. Its leaders insisted on promoting Prof. Susan Ostermann, despite her abortion advocacy and the pleas of many bishops and faithful Catholics, including […]
Parents are the primary educators of their children, as is repeatedly asserted in Vatican documents. Parents are not only the first educators in a child’s lifetime, but they are also most important at every stage of a child’s formation. Everything in Catholic education, then, depends on the health of the […]
You’ve heard a lot from me during this glorious week. And now, as of this morning, we officially have a new Doctor of the Church—just two days after naming him Patron of Catholic Education! Ora pro nobis, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman! Today, my wife Rosario and I joined thousands of […]
Today I traveled to Castel Gandalfo, the summer residence of the Pope outside Rome. Here, I delivered an address celebrating our patron St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and Pope Leo’s announcement that Newman is Patron of Catholic Education. Most exciting, I was able to celebrate this with the students and […]
Over the course of his lifetime—which spanned most of the 19th century—St. John Henry Cardinal Newman was many things: scholar, reformer, preacher, convert, theologian, priest, and cardinal. Through it all, however, he was an educator. Cor ad cor loquitur (“Heart speaks to heart”) was Newman’s motto, and he believed strongly […]
When Pope Leo XIII made St. John Henry Newman a cardinal in 1879, it was an exciting moment for English Catholics! They had suffered more than 300 years of suppression and persecution. But the Church was rising once again in England—what Newman called a miraculous “second spring.” Newman, however, saw […]
Today, Our Patron Is Patron for All the Universal Church. For more than three decades, The Cardinal Newman Society has championed the educational vision of our holy patron, Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman. Our Newman Guide is the hallmark of fidelity and truth in Catholic education, a service to families […]
