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Fr. Gutierrez: We need to seize the Gospel from its private owners
At the end of the Pontificate of Pius IX, Newman was editing his works written at the time he was Anglican. One of these was his book on the development of doctrine,Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, a compilation of lectures he had delivered at Oxford. At the time this editing task ended, he received a homage from the Trinity College, the Anglican institution where he received his undergraduate degree. The directors of that college named Newman an Honorary Fellow. Newman was highly flattered by that tribute, and he considered dedicating his newly edited work to the Anglicans of Trinity College as retribution for their homage. In the two letters below to Richard William Church, an Anglican priest, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and a life-long friend of Newman, the latter mentions the honor he received and his intent to dedicate his revised work to the president of Trinity College. Newman's indecision was caused by his fear that the other Anglican priest who directed Trinity College, Samuel W. Wayne, would take offense at receiving a work of a Catholic as a homage. Shrewder than expected, Wayne did not see too many contradictions between his heretic beliefs and what Newman had written in that book, and he accepted Newman's dedication, which is in the last document It seems quite expressive that the last major work by Newman was in tune with Anglicanism and dedicated to an Anglican priest.  These photocopies are from The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman by Wilfrid Ward, vol. II, pp. 426-429. 


Brother:. Vanderlei Bagnato Becomes a Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican 
Professor and researcher in S�o Carlos, Vanderlei Bagnato, a member of the A:.R:.L:.S:. Star of Liberty Lodge No. 2877, member of the Lodge of S�o Carlos in S�o Paulo, was elected a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the world's oldest academy of this type.  According to the report, Vanderlei Bagnato, who is a professor at University of S�o Paulo - USP, viewed the election as a honor and is very pleased that his name was chosen, since this academy is frequented by great scientists, including some who have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Vanderlei Bagnato will receive from the hands of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, the insignia of a member of the Academy in the first week of November of this year [2012].  The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is an international institution, multi-racial in composition, and non-sectarian in the choice of members. The work of the Academy is in six major areas: basic science, science and technology regarding global problems; science for problems of the developing world, scientific policy, bioethics and epistemology.  Grand Oriente of Brazil, October 19, 2012 10:00 a.m.