John Henry Newman's influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in the Church of England was profound. Volume VIII of the Letters and Diaries covers a turbulent period in his life with the publication of his Tract 90, his opposition to the establishment of the joint Anglo-Prussian Bishopric at Jerusalem, against a background of continuing acrimony in University affairs.
John Henry Newman was a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots.
Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic, he wrote a number of influential books.
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