{Cardinal Newman’s Crises}[5th March 1990]

[Redbook7:80][19900305:1715]{Cardinal Newman’s Crises}[5th March 1990]

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I picked up from a radio programme yesterday morning (c0830am [sic] R[adio] 4?) the fact that Cardinal Newman’s formal conversion to Roman Catholicism came at the mid-year of his life:

b[irth]	21/02/1801
conv[ersion]	9/10/1845*
d[eath]	11/08/1890

The Oxford Movement began, with Newman as ‘its effective organiser and intellectual leader’,** in 1833, when he was (or was almost) 32. His first significant act as a Roman Catholic seems to have been the foundation of the Oratory in Birmingham in 1848, when he was c47.

*{(ie at age 44)}

**E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] VIII.[657]

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