Celebrating with Newman Guide colleges

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 faculty of Catholic Institute of Technology, one of the newest colleges with provisional recognition in The Newman Guide, at their palatial campus. Also joining us were students from the University of Dallas, a longtime Newman Guide Recommended college.

I told them that the Church’s exaltation of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman honors his work in Catholic education, and thereby also honors Newman Guide Recommended institutions that “carry out Newman’s vision for Catholic education, his prescription for renewing the Church and society.”

The Church’s recognition of Newman as Doctor of the Church is also a great honor to The Cardinal Newman Society’s three decades of work promoting his vision and the educators and benefactors who have supported this work.

“In St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, we have been given a prophet for modern times, a herald of the renewal he called a ‘second spring,’ an awakening and re-integration of the person and the Church which comes from authentic education ordered to communion with God.”

Please continue praying for the success of all our important work through the intercession of St. John Henry Newman. May God bless you!

With prayers and gratitude,

Patrick Reilly
Founder and President
The Cardinal Newman Society