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Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s most esteemed accolades upon St John Henry Newman, the influential 19th-century British convert and theologian.
Newman has been declared a Doctor of the Church, an honour that also positions him as a model for Catholic educators.
This rare distinction places Newman among an elite group of just 37 individuals in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history, alongside monumental figures
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