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Newman Center, Hall name has deeper meaning for pilgrims to canonization

By: Tom Dermody   -   October 23, 2019   -   Featured Article canonization, Father Robert Lampitt, pilgrimage, Rome, St. John Henry Newman, St. John's Catholic Newman Center, University of Illinois, VaticanehrNewman

Student pilgrims from St. John's Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois are pictured outside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican prior to the canonization Mass for St. John Henry Newman and four other new saints. From left, they are Anthony Burkhardt, Nicole Nussel, Aleesha Roessler, and James Kabbes. (Provided photo by Father Robert Lampitt)

CHAMPAIGN — Anthony Burkhardt will never say “Newman Hall” the same way. Not after the sophomore molecular and cellular biology major at the University of Illinois spent five days in Italy with a contingent from St. John’s Catholic Newman Center and attended the Oct. 13 canonization Mass for five new saints, including St. John Henry […]