Selected Sermons
By Saint John Henry Newman | Edited by Daniel M. O’Connell, S.J. October 9, 1845: in the English parish of Littlemore, an Italian priest named Dominic Barberi received one John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church. Thus was a conversion, years in the making, now complete. Like all conversions, it entailed loss and gain. Newman, as his compatriot and fellow-convert Monsignor Ronald Knox would remark on the centenary of that event, gained but one thing—yet this was the only thing it mattered to gain: “the consciousness of telling, of living the truth.” In the warm blaze of the kindly light of that truth, Newman put his immense intellectual and rhetorical talents in service to the Gospel, preaching not from the rostrum, but from the pulpit. Edited by Daniel M. O’Connell, S.J., this volume offers twenty-eight of Newman’s sermons, taken from both his Catholic and Anglican years. These represent the living appeal of Newman’s brand of preaching, an appeal flowing from their religious sympa