Australian Marist takes over as Cardinal Newman diaries editor

Sydney
2 March 2003

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Australian Marist Br Francis McGrath has been appointed editor of the Letters and Diaries of John Henry Cardinal Newman project at the Birmingham Oratory in England.

His appointment follows the unexpected death of the previous editor Gerard Tracey.

Br Frank, a member of the Marist community at Ashgrove in Brisbane, has been associated with the Birmingham Oratory and Gerard Tracey for almost 25 years.

He has a master's degree in education from Boston College, Massachusetts, and is the first Australian to gain his doctorate at Oxford University - Newman's own university - in Newman studies.

Br Frank is the author of John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation (Burns and Oates 1997) and has produced an annotated edition of Newman's Church of the Fathers for Gracewing publications 2002 (UK) and for Notre Dame University Press (US).

The letters and diaries project is regarded as one of the most important literary and theological enterprises of the past 150 years.

It was begun by Fr Stephen Dessain in the 1950s and continued by Gerard Tracey.

Thirty-two volumes of the letters and diaries will be published by the Oxford University Press.

Br Frank's commission is to bring the project to a conclusion by finishing volumes 9 and 10 (focusing on Newman's final Anglican years) and Volume 32, which will contain all the correspondence which has been discovered too late for inclusion in its correct period.

At the time of his appointment, Br Frank was in the process of completing Volume 4 of Newman's unpublished Anglican Sermons for Oxford University Press plus an annotated edition of Newman's Essays Critical and Historical, Volumes 1 and 2.