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Newman remains one of my great heroes, and attacks on his integrity, theology or sexuality cannot dim this. He remains the quintessential Victorian, but the theme of change in his life marks him as a modern – one of the first modern Catholics and a precursor of the post-Vatican II era. Pray for his Canonisation.

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