Comments on: Americans Owe Newman a Debt http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/20/americans-owe-newman-a-debt/ A First Things Blog Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joe DeVet http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/20/americans-owe-newman-a-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-24598 Joe DeVet Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:52:06 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21797#comment-24598 One doesn’t usually think of Americans owing Newman a debt, but in fact what Joseph Pearce proposes makes a lot of sense. One concrete symbol of the debt owed to Newman is the instance of “Newman Centers” at every significant university, which cater to the students there…in honor of Newman the Catholic academic man.

A possibly more important recent symbol is the Newman Society, which seeks to restore authentic Catholic teaching and practice to the Newman centers which have drifted, and to restore authentic Catholic identity to formerly Catholic universities like Notre Dame, Georgetown, and many others (whose name is Legion, SJ!)

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