The Cross, the central mystery of Christian faith, traverses the centuries as theological language, grammar of love, and prophetic sacrament. This study analyzes the spiritual convergence between John Henry Newman and Blessed Domenico of the Mother of God (Barberi), with particular attention to the Cross of Christ as hermeneutic key, epistemic principle, and shared theological locus. In a time marked by ecclesial transitions and doctrinal polarizations, the witness of these two protagonists emerges as a living response to the crisis of meaning and identity fragmentation. Their theology is mystical, lived, redemptive, and finds in suffering its central paradigm (von Balthasar, Theo-Drama, Jaca Book, 2005, vol. II, pp. 67–75).
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