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The Newman Apostolate

"Students who attend colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning are the leaders of future generations. Within the Diocese of Allentown there are substantial and ever incresing numbers of Catholic students in non-Catholic institutions of higher learning.

It is the function of the Newman Apostolate to help them develop a mature faith that they might be complete persons in the image of Christ. The Newman Apostolate makes the pilgrim church, which is missionary by its very nature, conveniently accessible to many who wish to learn from it." -from The First Synod of Allentown, May 1, 1968

St.

John Henry Newman

The Newman Center is named after John Cardinal Newman. He was born in 1801 in London.

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Educated at Oxford, he later became an Anglican minister. Newman became a Catholic in 1845 and he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1847. In 1851 he was named rector of the Catholic University of Dublin. In his book Idea of a University, he attemp