Saving John Henry Newman’s Legacy: How the Apologia Pro Vita Sua Repaired a Man’s Reputation
Saving John Henry Newman's Legacy How the Apologia Pro Vita Sua Repaired a Man's Reputation by Travis Anderson, host of the Why Is That Podcast Only once in the recorded history of mankind has a person been born to the world and led a completely perfect and sin-free life. In the Christian faith, that man was Jesus Christ the son of God, sent to save us from our sins. No one since that day has come close to duplicating that feat, but duplicating the feat is not what makes a man great. Instead, it is living everyday in an attempt to come closer to God and few are able to make that sacrifice. One man who tried was John Henry Newman. Newman was not a man without controversy. He went from a leading man in the Church of England to a converted Catholic in a country where the idea of being English was tied to the idea of being Protestant. At the end of his life and even into our age, Newman is revered by both Catholics and Protestants. However, that was not always the cas
