Sermon Notes of John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1849-1878 / Edited by Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory

John Henry Newman, Sermon Notes of John Henry Cardinal Newman 1849-1878 - Introduction and Notes by James Tolhurst

Newman was told that Catholic priests do not read sermons. He nonetheless planned his Catholic sermons as meticulously as he did his famous Parochial and Plain Sermons, but he committed them to memory and made notes afterwards. He did this for thirty years and the Sermon Notes provide some fascinating insights into his ever active mind and the range of subjects he covered within the framework of the Church's liturgical year.

John Henry Newman, (1801-1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal, a convert from Anglicanism in October 1845. In his early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic, he wrote influential books, including Via Media, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865-66) and the Grammar of Assent (1870). He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.