This article presents the reception of the thought of John Henry Newman and Edith Stein in the official theological and ecclesiastical circles of the Catholic Church. It collects a part of the history of the war between politics and religion of the contemporary era, in a part of the Christian churches of the West.
This war is the resistance of the Old Regime, against the new order that at the end of modernity inaugurates the proclamations of the dignity of man, human rights and the sovereignty of self-consciousness.
The reception of Newman and Stein signifies the recognition of human rights and human dignity in the aforementioned religious fields.