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What/Who is Newman?
The Newman Center is named after John Cardinal Newman. He was born in 1801 in London. Educated at Oxford, he later became an Anglican minister. Newman became a Catholic in 1845 and he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1847. In 1851 he was named rector of the Catholic University of Dublin. In his book Idea of a University, he attempted to analyze the true concept of liberal education in a university setting. He was created a cardinal in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII and he died in 1890. In 1991 Pope John Paul II declared him Venerable, the first step in the cause for Sainthood.
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