Documents for your files PROGRESSIVIST DOCUMENT OF THE WEEK Newman against Papal Infallibility Less than two months after the start of the First Vatican Council (December 8, 1869), Newman wrote to his Ordinary of Birmingham, Bishop William B. Ullathorne, expressing his opposition to defining papal infallibility as a dogma of Faith and describing it as a "great calamity." Doing so, he identified himself, once again, with Catholic Liberalism, which combated that doctrine. At the Council the leaders of this current were Bishop Felix Dupanloup of Orleans, France, and Bishop Joseph G. Strossmayer of Dakovo, Croatia. Newman and Dupanloup were correspondents and mutual admirers. Newman's letter, supposedly private, was soon published by the Standard newspaper. How it reached the paper remains unknown, but its publication fulfilled Newman's wishes expressed in its first and last paragraphs. Below, we reproduce a photocopy of Newman's letter to Bishop Ullathorne of January 28, 1870. This document is in The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman by Wilfrid Ward, vol. II, pp. 287-289. Related Topics of Interest   Newman Is the Head of the English Liberal Catholics   Newman Is the Most Dangerous Man in England   Drawing Rabbits from the Hat in Britain   A Pain in the Back   More Symptoms of Newman's Homosexuality   Brownson Warns against Newman's Theory on Changing Dogma   Newman Supports Free Speech in the Church   Newman's Resentment of Authority   Newman Regrets the Syllabus   Newman's Admiration for Anglicanism Never Ceased    Newman's Reservations to Marial Devotion    Newman Attacks Pius IX    Newman Suspect in Rome    Newman's Method To Promote Liberal Catholicism   Newman's Admiration for Acton and Döllinger    The Ecumenical Formation Newman Gave to Youth   Fr. Feeney on Cardinal Newman   The Liberal Cardinal Newman Americans Don’t Know   Another Look at John Henry Cardinal Newman    A 'Gay' Newman?   Polemic on Newman’s Homosexuality Grows Related Works of Interest Documents  |  Home  |  Books  |  CDs  |  Search  |  Contact Us  |  Donate ©2002-2013    Tradition in Action, Inc.    All Rights Reserved