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 1890, "Newman Clubs" began to spread across secular college campuses in the United States, offering Catholic students a way to nurture their faith during their college years. While the Harvard Catholic Center, founded in 1893, has been known by various names, it has never adopted the term “Newman...

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 saw as a turning point of his life. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, he became a Fellow of Oriel (1822), was ordained a priest (1825), and served energetically at a working-class parish nearby. Vicar of the University Church of Great St. Mary’s (1828), he became a reforming tutor at...

CLAIRE SWADLING AB'26 (Plymouth, MI) I'm greatly appreciative of my time at St. Paul's RCIA because it not only allowed me to learn more...