Doctor of the Church
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Just six years later, Pope Francis' successor Leo XIV has recognised Newman with an even greater honour, making him a Doctor of the Church.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
Sister Mary-Birgit added that Newman's appointment as a Doctor of the Church had "confirmed and encouraged" her sisterhood's mission at Littlemore.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
Almost 150 years later, current pontiff Pope Leo XIV announced last week that Newman would be recognised as a Doctor of the Church.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
And the lion, for me, is essential, even if it is almost certainly a fiction added by later writers who sought to humanize the lawyerly and confrontational Doctor of the Church.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2019
The question is answered thus: St. Thomas as a Doctor of the Church and in matters which were not then de fide, is a witness to the expression of the faith of his time.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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