PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

John Henry Newman and the Terrible Intimacy of Truth “Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.” — St. John Henry Newman There is a loneliness that comes not from being unloved, but from seeing what one can no longer deny. This was the loneliness of St. John Henry Newman. Not the loneliness of temperament alone, though Newman possessed a profoundly inward nature. Nor merely the loneliness of intellectual brilliance, though his mind often moved beyond those around him. Dee