Canonisation of John Henry Newman
On 1 July 2019,
Canonisation process
Beatification
A file on Newman's beatification was first opened in 1958.
In October 2005, Paul Chavasse, provost of the Birmingham Oratory, who is the postulator responsible for the cause, announced that a miraculous cure had occurred.[4]
Jack Sullivan,
On 24 April 2008, the press secretary to the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory reported that the medical consultants at the
On 3 July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI recognised the healing of Deacon Jack Sullivan in 2001 as a miracle, resulting from the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God, John Henry Newman. This decision paved the way for Newman's beatification, which occurred on 19 September 2010.[10] Pope Benedict said that Newman "tells us that our divine Master has assigned a specific task to each one of us, a 'definite service', committed uniquely to every single person."[3]
Although it had been originally announced that Newman would be beatified at an open air
Steps towards canonisation
Chavasse expanded on his remarks at the
A second miracle was needed for Newman's canonisation. In November 2018, the Vatican approved a second miracle, involving the unexplained healing of a pregnant American woman from a life-threatening diagnosis and investigated by the Archdiocese of Chicago.[13] On 13 February 2019, it was announced that Pope Francis had approved the Decree concerning this miracle, and Newman's canonisation took place in Rome on 13 October 2019.
Movement of remains
In 2008, the Vatican decided to enact plans to move Newman's remains from The
The planned exhumation and move of Newman's remains were finally agreed by the UK authorities as a special case, as UK law prohibits the removal of a body from a graveyard to a church tomb. Licence was finally granted on 11 August 2008, the 118th anniversary of Newman's death in 1890, to permit the move by undertakers.
Newman's grave at Rednal was opened on 2 October 2008.
Controversy
The proposed movement of Newman's body angered some
Tatchell went on to criticise the Home Office of collusion with the Vatican. He claimed that the Roman Catholic Church had "put the government under sustained pressure" to obtain the authorisation to exhume the body.[19] Nevertheless, Ker and Paul Chavasse, the then Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, maintain that Newman would have been glad to submit to the wishes of the Vatican in whatever they asked, no matter his previous wishes.[20]
See also
- Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom
References
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- ^ Rousselle, Christine (29 November 2018). "Vatican approves second miracle for Blessed John Henry Newman". Catholic News Agency. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ "BBC NEWS – UK – England – West Midlands – Exhumed cardinal to lie in state". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "BBC NEWS – UK – England – West Midlands – No body in exhumed Newman's grave". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
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- ^ Wynne-Jones, Jonathan (19 July 2008). "Vatican orders Cardinal Newman to be parted from priest friend in shared grave The final request of Britain's most famous Roman Catholic convert, Cardinal Newman, is to be overriden [sic] as the Vatican prepares to make him a saint". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ Gay rights activist accuses Vatican of "moral vandalism", Times Online Archived 14 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ministry of Justice accused of "collusion" over Cardinal Newman exhumation". PinkNews. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Was a Would-Be Saint Gay?". Time. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 15 October 2019. "As a great man of the church and devoted to the saints himself, Cardinal Newman would have been the first to insist on obeying a request of the Holy See and the last to insist that his own personal wishes be regarded as immutable."