NEWMAN STUDIES JOURNAL 3 EDITORIAL PREFACE COR AD COR LOQUITUR HEART SPEAKS TO HEART On April 25, 1879, after his arrival in Rome to receive his cardinal’s hat, Newman wrote to Arthur Hutton (1848-1912) requesting him to check whether the words—Cor ad Cor Loquitur—appeared in theVulgate (St.Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible) or in the writings of Thomas a Kempis (c.1380-1417).1 In fact,the words are found in a letter written by St.Francis de Sales (1567-1622) in 1604:“The ancient Fathers . . . spoke from the heart to the heart, like good fathers to their children.”2 Newman apparently had forgotten that he had cited this passage two dozen years earlier in his Dublin lecture on “University Preaching” in 1855.3 Historical origins aside, Cor ad Cor Loquitur might be considered emblematic of Newman’s life and work. As vicar of Saint Mary’s in Oxford (1828-43), Newman’s preaching attracted not only locals, but out-of-town visitors, who considered their trip incomplete without listening to Newman preach:his sermons spoke to their hearts.This attraction was even the case with his philosophical writings such as the Grammar of Assent (1870), parts of which were drawn from his personal correspondence with people experiencing problems of faith.4 Similarly, his theological lectures—on the prophetical office of the Church and the nature of justification— packed the Adam de Brome chapel with undergraduates during the heyday of the Oxford Movement. As a Roman Catholic, Newman attracted the attention of the English-speaking world with his discourses on the nature of a university.He also fascinated his readers with the self-revelations about the development of his “religious opinions” in his Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), which like many Victorian novels was originally published serially in fascicles,before being collected into a single volume.This list of Newman’s remarkable ability to touch the minds and hearts of his contemporaries could continue at length, but what is important to note is that he spoke not only to his contemporaries in the nineteenth century, he continues to speak to the minds and hearts of people today. 1 The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman XXIX,The Cardinalate, January 1879 to September 1881,edited by Charles Stephen Dessain andThomas Gornall,S.J.(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1976) 107-108; for his cardinalatial coat-of-arms, Newman adapted those used by his father on his seals and book plates (ibid., 108, n.1). 2 Citation from P. Boyle, Instructions on Preaching, Catechising and Clerical Life (Dublin, 1902) in Geoffrey Rowell,“«Cor ad Cor Loquitur»: Newman’s Choice of His Cardinalatial Motto as a Pointer to his Understanding of Christian Faith and its Communication,” in John Henry Newman: Theologian and Cardinal, Atti del Simposio internazionale (7-12 ottobre 1979), Studia Urbaniana 10 (Rome: Urbaniana University Press; Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 1981) 49-73, at 50. 3 “University Preaching,” in Part 2 of The Idea of a University, which is available on line at: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/article6.html ¶ 3 (410);Newman changed the Latin from the dative (cor cordi loquitur,translating the French:le coeur parle au coeur) to the accusative,which is both linguistically more rhythmical and grammatically more plurivalent. 4 For a detailed discussion of the personal antecedents of the Grammar,see Edward J.Enright,Faith and Reason in Newman’s Anglican and Roman Catholic Correspondence as Historical Background to An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, S.T.D. dissertation,The Catholic University of America, 1990. NEWMAN STUDIES JOURNAL 4 5John Paul II, “Papal Letter Celebrating the Bicentenary of Newman’s Birth,” available at: http://www.newmanreader.org/canonization/popes/or22jan01.html; the citation within in the citation is from Fides et ratio (Introduction; also see ¶ 74). 6 Pope Paul VI,“Address to Newman Scholars” (7 April 1975), available at: http://www.newmanreader.org/canonization/popes/or17apr75.html; italics in the original. 7 The International Centre of Newman Friends maintains a Web site that lists publications by and about Newman from 1990 to the present: www.newmanfriendsinternational.org. 8 Some of the presentations at the conference held at the...