Pope Leo XIII has decided to name Saint John Henry Newman a Co-Patron of Catholic Education, along side of Saint Thomas Aquinas, according to the statement by the Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, His Eminence José Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça. The Holy Father will do that with the publication of a November 28th document on Catholic Education to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Vatican II document Gravissimum Educationis.
Here are the relevant quotes.
"...[T]he Holy Father has decided to associate the Jubilee of Education with the figure of an extraordinary educator and great inspirer of the philosophy of education: Saint John Henry Newman. We know that he will be declared a Doctor of the Church in the celebration on 1 November, the closing Holy Mass of the Jubilee of the World of Education. But that is not all. In the document he will publish next Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV affirms that, in the context of this Jubilee, he will have the great joy of naming Saint John Henry Newman co-patron of the educational mission of the Church, together with Saint Thomas Aquinas."
"...Tuesday, 28 October, a document by Pope Leo XIV will be published, to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Gravissimum Educationis, and to reflect on the current relevance of the Conciliar Declaration and on the challenges that education has to face today, in particular for Catholic schools and universities. Indeed, as Pope Leo writes in the Document:
"“The Declaration Gravissimum Educationis has not lost its bite. Since its reception, a constellation of works and charisms has been born... a spiritual and pedagogical heritage capable of traversing the twenty-first century and responding to the most pressing challenges. This heritage is not set in stone: it is a compass that continues to point the way. Expectations today are no less than those the Church faced sixty years ago. On the contrary, they have expanded and become more complex... history challenges us with new urgency. Rapid and profound changes expose children, adolescents and young people to unprecedented fragility. It is not enough to preserve: we need to relaunch. I ask all educational institutions to inaugurate a season that speaks to the hearts of the new generations, recomposing knowledge and meaning, competence and responsibility, faith and life”."
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