The Vatican has given a great gift to the Pontifical Beda College - the banner of Newman which was hung from the balcony of St Peter’s for the Mass last Saturday (when St John Henry was made Doctor of the Church). Now we look for a suitable place to hang it. Newman is an indirect ‘founder’ of the Beda as Pope Pius IX founded the college to form future Newmans for the priesthood (just a few years after he was in Rome without a suitable seminary for his age, experience and education).