Good grief, a parody?!
Is this today’s crypto thread?
as I understand it, every single Catholic saint is/was a sinner. They got something wrong at some point in their lives, but lived overwhelmingly, in the big picture, like someone who is a loyal friend of Jesus. There are even some saints who got it wrong on an important theological point, and still “made the cut”, despite their doctrinal error.
So, in the worst case scenario, even if Newman wrote a lousy treatise on something, and I don’t know whether he did or not, consider the whole.
Newman became a Catholic in 1845.
Cardinal Newman is cited by Russell Kirk as a significant conservative thinker both before and after leaving the Anglican communion.
Fishtank has a blogger that doesn’t like something he wrote over a hundred years ago.
I’ll go with Kirk in my general opinion.