Pope Leo said, “We must work together to set humanity free from the encircling gloom of nihilism, which is perhaps the most dangerous malady of contemporary culture, since it threatens to ‘cancel’ hope.
The Vatican has announced that St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890), one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the 19th century, will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, the 38th to receive the title.
