Newman's Unquiet Grave

John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the ''greatest'' prose stylist of the Victorian age.

A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a ''Venerable''. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman''s works, pressed for his beatif...