Tag: Doctor of the Church

The lives of St John Henry Newman and of all the saints teach Christians that "it is possible to live passionately amidst the complexity of the present without neglecting the apostolic mandate to 'shine like stars in the world,'" Pope Leo XIV said.

When St John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the church on 1 November, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford's once-excluded Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV announced he will proclaim St John Henry Newman a doctor of the church 1 November during the Jubilee of the World of Education.

St John Henry Newman—the 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism, powerfully shaping religious thought in both faith traditions—will be named a doctor of the church by Pope Leo XIV.

20 years after the death of John Paul II on 2 April, 2005, it’s too early to declare St John Paul II a Doctor of the Church. It’s not too soon, however, to imagine why such an honour might be bestowed on him in the future.

Dear Fr John Flader, You have written that the primacy of the Pope over the Church was accepted by the whole Church in the first centuries? What other indications of this acceptance are there?

By Maria Wiering Beginning well before he was elected pope in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI made substantial contributions to theology and Catholic thought through his prolific writing,...

On 7 October this year, Pope Francis announced that he plans to name St Irenaeus of Lyon as the 37th Doctor of the Church, giving him the title “Doctor of Unity”. The tradition of calling certain Christians doctors (teachers) of the Church, goes back to the Middle Ages, when theologians of that time recognised four […]