Ep. 73 - St. John Henry Newman's Aesthetics - Fr. Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.

The Catholic Culture Podcast · Apr 27, 2020 · 1h 31m

St. John Henry Newman was involved in several art forms throughout his life. In literature, he was perhaps the greatest English prose writer of his time, and a highly skilled poet. In music, he was an accomplished amateur violinist, taught music to the boys at his school in Littlemore, and oversaw liturgical music as the head of an Oratorian community. In architecture, he commissioned a number of church buildings and was involved in controversies over the role of the Gothic in contemporary English Catholic church architecture.

Though Newman never wrote a book on the topic of beauty, comments…