On July 31, 2025, Pope Leo XIV affirmed Saint John Henry Newman as a “Doctor of the Universal Church,” with the title to be officially conferred on November 1, 2025. Shortly after Newman's death in 18
John Henry Newman was born in London (1801), an Anglican, son of a banker. Falling ill during the collapse of his father’s bank, he was providentially converted to devotion (1816), a shift he always s
