{"id":1044,"date":"2005-10-19T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T08:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/newmans-cause.html"},"modified":"2005-10-19T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T08:40:46","slug":"newmans-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/newmans-cause.html","title":{"rendered":"Newman’s Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advancing at last?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although a dossier on Cardinal Newman\u2019s beatification was first opened in 1958, no miracles had, until now, been attributed to his intercession. \u201cI had to tell John Paul that the English are not very good at miracles,\u201d Cardinal Murphy-O\u2019Connor said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that we are not pious, but the English tend to think of God as a gentleman who should not be bullied.\u201d <\/p>\n

Yesterday, however, the cleric responsible for arguing Newman\u2019s cause, Father Paul Chavasse, the Provost of Birmingham Oratory, which was founded by Newman in 1848, said that a deacon in the Diocese of Boston in the United States had testified that he had recovered from a spinal disease after praying to Cardinal Newman. \u201cAt last we have a miracle cure,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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