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Oxford Oratory celebrates uptick in adults received into Catholic Church

February 08, 2024

The Oxford Oratory reports that an increase in adults seeking to be received into the Catholic Church means that it has had to start special classes to cater for the influx, and that as a result the Oratory has been responsible for 5 per cent of such application requests within its relevant Archdiocese during 2023.

Heart speaks to heart: Benedict XVI’s theological debt to Newman

February 01, 2023

By his own admission, the high point of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was his beatification of St John Henry Newman in Cofton Park, Birmingham, in September 2010. Throughout his adult life Benedict so admired Newman’s “theology of conscience” that he became perhaps the world’s greatest exponent of Newman’s teachings in this field. He