Bibliography:FCR Bibliography 0064
Carola, Joseph A.. Newman and the Roman College: A Formative Exchange. (2020).
| Name(s) | Carola, Joseph A. |
|---|---|
| Title | Newman and the Roman College: A Formative Exchange |
| Year | 2020 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Contained in | Nova et vetera, vol. 18/3 |
| Bibliographic level | Paper in journal |
| Keyword(s) | Collegium Romanum |
The Pontifical Gregorian University's archives contain an autograph letter from Saint John Henry Newman of the Birmingham Oratory to Jesuit Father Giovanni Perrone, Prefect of Studies at the Roman College and Consultor for Propaganda Fide. Newman wrote to Perrone on May 5, 1867, in response to the Jesuit's letter of April 27 of that same year. Perrone had written to Newman in order to assure him of his affection, support, and defense. "You cannot believe how much I have always loved and esteemed Your Reverence," Perrone writes in Italian, "I know that Your Reverence has lately had some bitter disappointments, and I have felt them as if they were mine." "In certain circumstances," Perrone continues, "I have taken up your defense, and I have been successful. I cannot tell you anything more, given the nature of the affair. If another occasion should present itself to me, you may be sure that you will always have in me one who will defend your cause."1 The immediate case, to which Perrone refers, may well have [End Page 741] been the question of mixed education, that is, the question of Catholics studying at Protestant educational institutions, namely, Oxford University. Officials at Propaganda Fide, the Cardinal Prefect Alessandro Barnabò, and Pope Pius IX himself opposed such education. They were, moreover, under the false impression that Newman not only tolerated it in isolated cases, but indeed encouraged it in general.
