John Henry Newman: Episode Four
The Saints
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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🗺️ John Henry Newman - Episode Four: Life in Littlemore
Littlemore, England, 1842. With no friends left to support him in Oxford, John Henry Newman moves to Littlemore to be close to his sister. A chance meeting with his new friend, the Catholic priest Father Charles Russell, prompts John to reconsider his anti-Catholic past...and determines his future.
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The series highlights Newman’s steadfast pursuit of truth, even when it costs him friendships and security. His courage in confronting authority, his humility in admitting past errors, and his charity toward those who misunderstood him model holiness. At every turn, his faith deepens and his wisdom grows.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity. Newman endures serious illness abroad, visions of death, bitter disputes with colleagues, the death of his mother, estrangement from his sister, and accusations of betrayal. The weight of conversion and renunciation of old loyalties is portrayed directly and soberly.
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| 0:00.0 | Littlemore, England, 1842. |
| 0:05.6 | With no friends left to support him in Oxford, |
| 0:08.6 | John Henry Newman moves to Littlemore to be close to his sister. |
| 0:12.8 | A chance meeting with his new friend, the Catholic priest father Charles Russell, |
| 0:17.6 | prompts John to reconsider his anti-Catholic past and determines his future. |
| 0:28.7 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage |
| 0:32.9 | John Henry Newman. Episode 4. Life in Littlemore. |
| 0:39.0 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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| 0:47.6 | No matter how your child learns, |
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| 1:05.1 | It's wonderful to have you in Littlemore, John. |
| 1:07.8 | Thank you, Harriet. |
| 1:09.1 | If only Mother was still with us. |
| 1:12.3 | I think she'd be thrilled you live here now. A nice change of pace for you, certainly. Absolutely. It's been a difficult few years, |
| 1:19.7 | leaving my teaching at Oriel College, the end of the tracts. Surely the bishop will change his mind. |
| 1:26.3 | It sounds like a simple misunderstanding. |
| 1:28.3 | You know so much about theology. |
| 1:30.3 | What could you have possibly said that was incorrect? |
| 1:33.3 | He believes I expressed papist sympathies. |
| 1:36.3 | Papist sympathies? |
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