Saint John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was an English theologian, cardinal, and scholar whose ideas transformed modern religious thought. Originally an influential Anglican priest and a leader of the Oxford Movement, his conversion to Catholicism in 1845 reshaped the English religious landscape, while his writings—including Apologia Pro Vita Sua and The Idea of a University—profoundly developed the understanding of Christian doctrine and higher education.
Cultivating Silence
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl:
“We are not lacking silence. We already have it. / If we lack silence, it is because we have not learned how to keep it. / All the noises that surround us make much less din than we ourselves do. / The real noise is the echo that things have in us. / It is not speaking that necessarily breaks the silence. / Silence is the place of the word of God, and if we confine ourselves to repeating this word, then we can speak without ceasing to be silent.”
— The Dazzling Light of God, trans. Mary Dudro Gordon
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