Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

I'm Dr. Matthew Patrusick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the

Word on Fire show. Thank you, as always, for joining us.

Friends, in honor of St. John Henry Newman's recently being named a doctor of the church,

we're bringing you Bishop Barron's entire Word on Fire Institute lecture series on John Henry Newman,

right here for free.

Throughout these next several weeks, we'll dive deep into one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and intellectual heroes.

St. John Henry Newman. As always, enjoy.

In this fourth lecture, I want to just finish up our consideration of the Apologia Provitasua,

our consideration of Newman's life and times. And then we'll look at the second of his really

great books, the essay on the development of Christian doctrine.

So let's just say a few more things now about Newman's life. Having been rehabilitated by the

publication of the Apologia, Newman is plunged almost immediately into another controversy.

This one is around the authority and infallibility of the Pope.. Now we're in the 1860s. There are certain

Catholics in Europe who are calling for a very strong reaffirmation of the Pope's authority and

infallibility. Keep in mind we're at the era of Pope Pius the 9th, who had just published the

syllabus of errors, which was a very strong condemnation of most Pius the 9th, who had just published the syllabus of errors, which was a very strong

condemnation of most aspects of modernity. And the Pope kind of reasserting over and against

Italian nationalism, that's a whole other story, but the Pope reasserting his authority, both

kind of political and theological. Now, Newman becomes a bit alarmed. Mind you,

not because he didn't believe in papal authority. Indeed, he did. And we'll see in some detail

how important he felt that was. But he was afraid that it might be overdefined. It might be

...