“Thousands are expected to travel to England to attend the beatification Mass for Cardinal John Henry Newman, the first rector of University College Dublin. The ceremony in Cofton Park, Birmingham, on September 17 will see Pope Benedict XVI beatify the the revered clergyman and convert from the Church of England, who died in 1890 …” (more)
[Grainne Cunningham, Independent, 24 July]
John Henry Newman was a hugely important figure – but he certainly wasn’t a ‘UCD Rector’, or indeed a UCD anything…