Is Cardinal John Henry Newman Interceding?

"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant."

Commentators have linked the announcement [of a new Apostolic Constitution, which will provide a way for Anglican groups to be admitted to full communion with the Catholic Church] to the forthcoming beatification of John Henry Newman, who converted to Catholicism in 1845 after years of reflection on the nature and mission of the Christian Church. A number of reporters have suggested that Newman himself could be the patron of new ‘Ordinariates’ – the name to be given to these Anglican groups after their reception into the Church.

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Original article: "Pope and Anglicans: Cardinal John Henry Newman's Role?"
10/23/2009 (www.newmancause.co.uk/)