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.

In these final weeks, we'll wrap up our series on one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and

intellectual heroes. As always, enjoy.

With this 10th lecture, I'm going to turn now to one in many ways, As always, enjoy.

With this 10th lecture, I'm going to turn now to one in many ways is John Henry Newman's masterpiece, a book called The Grammar of Ascent.

I think Newman himself saw it as the crowning glory, the culmination of his intellectual life.

Let me tell you first, though, about the speech that Newman gave when he was named Cardinal. So I mentioned to you earlier that

Pope Leo the 13th, referring to Newman as El Mio Cardinal, he's my Cardinal, raised him to the

cardinal. And at the time, there was a custom to give what was called the billieto speech,

the speech upon the reception of the word of becoming a cardinal.

And in that speech, Newman said, simply and famously,

my whole life has been dedicated to battling liberalism in matters of religion. Now, mind you, we just finished a consideration

of Newman's singing the praise of a liberal education. So he's not against liberalism,

certainly in that sense. And he doesn't quite mean what we mean today when we say liberalism.

He tells us exactly what he does mean when he says he

battled liberalism his whole life long. He means the view that there is no truth in matters of

religion. Now, you remember going all the way back to the Oxford movement, the young Newman says

the dogmatic, the doctrinal principle

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