for L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhatever our own beliefs, and no matter what our own tradition may be, we can only be grateful to Newman for the gifts, rooted in his Catholic faith, which he shared with wider society: his intense and moving spiritual autobiography and his deeply-felt poetry,\u201d the prince wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the age when he lived, Newman stood for the life of the spirit against the forces that would debase human dignity and human destiny.\u00a0 In the age in which he attains sainthood, his example is needed more than ever \u2013 for the manner in which, at his best, he could advocate without accusation, could disagree without disrespect and, perhaps most of all, could see differences as places of encounter rather than exclusion,\u201d Prince Charles wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time when faith was being questioned as never before, Newman, one of the greatest theologians of the nineteenth century, applied his intellect to one of the most pressing questions of our era: what should be the relationship of faith to a sceptical, secular age? His engagement first with Anglican theology, and then, after his conversion, Catholic theology, impressed even his opponents with its fearless honesty, its unsparing rigour and its originality of thought,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The prince noted the anti-Catholicism Newman faced after his conversion.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd perhaps most relevantly of all at this time, when we have witnessed too many grievous assaults by the forces of intolerance on communities and individuals, including many Catholics, because of their beliefs, he is a figure who stood for his convictions despite the disadvantages of belonging to a religion whose adherents were denied full participation in public life. Through the whole process of Catholic emancipation and the restoration of the Catholic Church hierarchy, he was the leader his people, his church and his times needed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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