ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN is to be declared a Doctor of the Church, the Pope has announced, in an acknowledgement of the significance of Newman’s teaching. After his secession in 1845, he joined the Birmingham Oratory and was later created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. There have long been calls for Newman to be made a Doctor of the Church. At the time of his canonisation, the RC Archbishop of Sydney, the most Revd Anthony Fisher, said that the honour should be bestowed (News, 18 October 2019). Newman is the 38th Doctor of the Church recognised by the Vatican, and the third of them to be associated with England, after the Venerable Bede and St Anselm of Canterbury.
