Posts from October 2026

Dearest friends, On Friday 9th October we mark the feast of St John Henry Newman, priest and Doctor of the Church. The word “Doctor” means teacher, recognising someone whose teaching helps the whole Church understand and live the Christian faith. Newman received that title last November, and his life gives us particular reason, as Anglicans, to give thanks. Before he became a Roman Catholic, Newman spent more than twenty years as an Anglican clergyman. He was one of the leading…