Bingo!

The cause of the beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of the nineteenth century's great English converts to Catholicism has long languished--one theory is that Newman's followers are so cerebral that they don't go around begging for that mandatory miracle. But now there's a Newman miracle and the cardinal is on the road to beatification! Catholic Wold News reports:

"Church officials would not reveal the identity of the man who benefited from the reported miracle, but said that the Boston archdiocese has established a commission to investigate the report. If a miracle if verified, it would fulfill the final requirement for beatification of the English scholar.

"Word of the alleged miracle became public at an October 18 press conference in Rome for the publication of a new book, Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Newman, edited by veteran Catholic journalist Peter Jennings. The book highlights the admiration that the Pope had professed for Cardinal Newman's writings."

Newman's "Apologia Pro Vita Sua," recounting how he moved from Anglicanism to Catholicism, is a spiritual classic.