Biglietto Speech
John Henry Newman12 May 1879
The address John Henry Newman gave in Rome on 12 May 1879 on receiving the notice that Pope Leo XIII had made him a cardinal. He says that for decades he had resisted what he calls liberalism in religion.
The speech was given at the Palazzo della Pigna in Rome when the messenger from the Vatican brought the biglietto announcing John Henry Newman’s elevation. It is cited in this wiki for the fact and date of his becoming a cardinal, and it is his own short summary of what he thought his life’s work had been.