Last week, it was announced that Pope Leo will soon declare St John Henry Newman to be a Doctor of the Church, raising the total number of Doctors to thirty-eight. St John Henry is the first Oratorian to be granted the title, the second Englishman, after the Venerable Bede, and the third cardinal, after Ss Bonaventure and Robert Bellarmine. (St Anselm, the eleventh Doctor, is often called “of
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