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Newman’s feast day rubs Anglican noses in it

The great Christian tradition is that for the church’s calendar you celebrate a person on the day of their death. John Henry Newman died August 11, 1890. The Church of England, hence, appropriately, has Newman on the calendar August 11. Today the pope, Benedict XVI, beatifies Newman and announces that for Roman Catholics, Newman’s feast

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