Most Rev. Philip Boyce OCD, Bishop of Raphoe
There has been a continuous ebb and flow of interest in Newman down through the last hundred years. At times the Cause of his Beatification and Canonisation was not considered in any serious way by most people, while at other times it was to the forefront and was worked upon assiduously. Fr. Richard Henry Philip Lynch was born the year of Newman’s death. He came to Birmingham Oratory as a young priest and was aggregated to the community in 1915. He testified during the collection of evidence in the Diocesan Process about the Cardinal’s reputation for holiness among the Fathers at that time:
to read more: Tokens of Holiness in Blessed John Henry Newman