Thoughtful Belief in a Secular Age: The Grammar of Assent | Archbishop Longley & Sr. Droste, OP

"Thoughtful Belief in a Secular Age: The Grammar of Assent"
Archbishop Bernard Longley (Birmingham) Response: Sr. Catherine
Joseph Droste, OP (Angelicum) These talks were given as part of the
Thomistic Institute Conference "Newman the Prophet: A Saint for Our
Times" which was part of the official program for the canonization
weekend of John Henry Cardinal Newman and held at the Angelicum in
Rome on October 12 2019. Archbishop Bernard Longley studied at
Xaverian College and the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester and New College, Oxford. He was ordained to the
priesthood for the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton on 12th December
1981 at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh. From 1987 to 1996 he was on
the staff at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, teaching dogmatic
theology. In 1991, he was appointed Surrey Chairman of the Arundel
and Brighton Diocesan Commission for Christian Unity and in 1996
became National Ecumenical Officer at the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of England and Wales. He was ordained Bishop and
appointed as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Westminster in
2003. Archbishop Longley was Head of the Diocesan Pastoral Board
and had pastoral responsibilities for the Deaneries of Camden,
Hackney, Islington, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets, and Westminster. The
Archbishop was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in October 2009 and
was installed as the ninth Archbishop of Birmingham on Tuesday 8th
December 2009. In 2011 Pope Benedict appointed the Archbishop as
the co-Chairman of ARCIC, with oversight of the third phase of
Anglican-Catholic dialogue. Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, OP is a
Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia, Nashville, TN. Sr. Droste
currently serves as Professor and Dean of Theology at the
Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (The Angelicum).