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The Flame of Love

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Three programmes this afternoon to mark the centenary of the death of Cardinal Newman.
In its day John Henry Newman's dramatic poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865) was compared with the Divine Comedy of Dante. Fr Roderick Strange explains the origin of the work and its theology of Purgatory.

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Cardinal Newman.
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John Henry
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Fr Roderick Strange
Source: Radio Times

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