...priesthood, in a magazine article which appeared for January, 1864. "Truth for its own sake," he wrote, "had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not be and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon of the saints wherewith to withstand...

...probably with no very strong intention to annoy: 'Truth for its own sake has never been a virtue of the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not and on the whole ought not to be.' As Newman had never informed them of any such thing, the only thing for Kingsley to do, when a protest...

...the Roman Catholic clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not be, and that, on the whole, it ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which...wicked world which marries and is given in marriage." Of this allegation Dr. Newman complained as " a grave and gratuitious slander." A note was appended...

...Magazine published a review of JA Froude's History of England, in which occurred the following words: "Truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with...clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not be, and on the whole ought not to be; — that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the...

...of himself and his follow-priests against the accusation of Charles Kingsley. That accusation ran: "Truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with...it need not, and, on the whole, ought not to be". This judgement, which Newman felt to be an open attack on his own honesty, occurred in the course of...

...write the Apologia. Kingsley had bluntly expressed what many of Newman's detractors had long felt: "Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue...of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage."12 Newman answers in the Apologia that he has always acted on the principles of St. Philip...

...himself under attack in 1864 for having preached, in the words of his accuser, Charles Kingsley, that "truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy," that "it need not, and on the whole ought not to be."9 A year later Newman published a pamphlet in...

...Cambridge but better known as a novelist, had assailed Manning's fellow-convert, Newman, for holding that 'cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the saints to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world, which marries and is given in marriage'. This...

...of all descriptions raged against Newman precisely because they believed he had betrayed the truth. "Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy," was Kingsley's famous charge that provoked Newman' s Apologia. ' 'Father Newman informs us that it...

...it had ever been uttered, what a strange belief would there have found expression — in that saying that "cunning is the weapon which heaven has given...wicked world which marries and is given in marriage." For a Saint would have his work cut out to excel in cunning the "brutal world," whose characteristic...