Rome-Littlemore, June 2013
Dear Newman Friends,
Blessed John Henry Newman once commented in a talk: “Truth is never enforced except at the sacrifice of its propounders” (Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England, London 1857, 403). This was not just a pious saying for this great English convert, but reality. In his long life he fought constantly and unwaveringly for the truth, bore witness to it, and, through suffering, misunderstanding and betrayal, paid a high price for his love of it. This is especially evident in the dramatic events of