DEATH OF CARDINAL NEWMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2085, 14 August 1890, Page 1

DEATH OF CARDINAL NEWMAN.

London, Aug. 11.;, Cardinal Newman, who was suffering from pneumonia, is dead.

[Bis Eminence John Henry Newman, Cardinal Deacon of the Holy Roman Church, bad attained the ripe age of eighty-nine years. He was the son cf John Newman, a member of the banking firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co. He was born in London in 1801, was educated at Ealing School, whence be proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford, where be graduated B.A. in 1820, taking classical honors, and was elected Fellow of Oriel College. In 1825 he became Vice-President of St. Alban’s Hall, then under the late Dr (afterward* Archbishop) Whataly, and in 1826 Tatbr of his College, which post he held antil about 1831. In 1828 he accepted the incumbency of St. Mary’s, Oxford, with the outlying chaplaincy of Littlemore ; and in 1842 he quitted Oxford, and established at Littlewore an ascetic community on a mediaeval model, over which he presided for three years. Ha held St. Mary’s from 1828 till 1843, where, by bis preaching, he gained such influence over the younger members of the university,- that he became, in conjunction with Dr Posey, the recognised leader of the High Church party, He took the leading part in the publication of the “ Tracts for the Times,” to which he contributed the final tract, No, 90, which was severely censured by the niversity authorities as practically annulling the broad lines of demarcation between the English and Roman Catholic Churches. Iu October, 1845, be seceded from the Established Church, was received into the Roman, and was, after being ordained priest, appointed head of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, at Birmingham. In 1854 he was appointed Rector of the newly-founded Catholic University in Dublin, but resigned that post in 1858, and has established a school for the sons of the Roman Catholic gentry at Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Dr Newman was elected an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, December 28th, 1877. It has been frequently asserted that Dr Newman did not believe in the doctrine of the infallibility of the Roman Pontiff when speaking ex cathedra to the Universal Church on questions of faith or morals. Iu reply Vo a criticism (o

this effect made by a Mr Capes, Dri Newman wrote as follows, (September! IStb, 1872) :—“ Ha assumes that I did ' not hold or profess the doctrine of the! Pope’s infallibility till the timeoflhej Vatican Council, whereas I have com- \ mitted myself to it in print again and i again from 1845 to 1867, And on the | other hand, as it bo happens—though Ij held it, as I ever have done—-I have bad \ no occasion to profess it, whether ini print or otherwise, since that date. Any \ one who knows my writings will recollect! that in so saying I state a simple fact.’’i Dr Newman wasr created »nd proclaimed; a Cardinal Deacon by Pope Leo XIII,. in 1879, ' He is the author of; a large i number of controversial and historical works, chiefly on religious subjects. His aatobiogrAphical record of his life, ■ entitled’ f‘ Apologia Pro ; Vita ’Rua,” is i familiar to most read»rs. It is also* pretty generally known that he is the. author of the favorLe hymn Lead, Kindly Light,’’, said to have been written on the eve ol his adoption of the« Roman Catholic religion.