In honor of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman being named a Doctor of the Church, please join us as Robert Royal and Edward Short offer a symposium on this great saint. Robert Royal will speak on “Newman’s Augustinian Heart” and Edward Short on “St. John Henry Newman and St. Thomas Aquinas: A Study in Apologetical Affinity.”

Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century, Columbus and the Crisis of the West, and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century. He was the inaugural John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies at Thomas More College.

Edward Short is the Executive Director of the Chesterton Academy of Vero Beach and the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy on St John Henry Newman comprised of Newman and his Contemporaries, Newman and his Family, and Newman and his Critics. He is also the author of Newman and History and a critical edition of Newman’s Difficulties of Anglicans, Volume I. Bishop James Massa, Rector of Saint Joseph’s Seminary in New York hailed Mr. Short’s Newman scholarship as “a gift to the whole Church.” In addition, Mr. Short is the author of two collections of essays, Adventures in the Book Pages and What The Bells Sang. Of the latter, Lord Roberts, Churchill’s biographer said: “As well as being beautifully written and genuinely brave, this book is also wise. It is a remarkable testament to the breadth and profundity of the author’s expertise and interests, and the extraordinary depth of his reading. The polymathic Man of Letters might be a disappearing breed in our civilization, but Edward Short is holding out. He should be listed, like a piece of our architectural heritage.” A staunch pro-lifer, Mr. Short is also the author of Culture and Abortion. His essays and reviews appear regularly in Literary Review, City Journal, Catholic World Report, and The New Criterion. Mr. Short obtained his BA degree cum laude in history and art history at Hunter College in the City University of New York. He lives in Florida and New York with his wife and two young children.