Robert Whitty (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Matthew Russell · 1913
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Robert Whitty was an Irish priest who moved from the London hierarchy into the Jesuits and ended as a senior figure of the order. Born near Oylgate in 1817, he entered Maynooth at fourteen in 1830. Still too young for orders after extra years on the Dunboyne establishment, he offered himself to Dr Griffiths, who ordained him at St Edmund's, Ware, in 1840.
He sympathised with the Oxford converts and befriended Newman and Oakeley before their conversions. Wiseman made him provost of the new metropolitan chapter and vicar-general in 1850. In that role he published the pastoral From the Flaminian Gate, which English bigotry called papal aggression. Whitty later wrote that the cardinal never blamed him, though others did. In 1857 he resigned and entered the Jesuit novitiate at Verona. Back in England he taught canon law at St Beuno's, laboured in Scotland, and became provincial. He died in 1895 after 38 years as a Jesuit.
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| CREATOR | Matthew Russell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |