SOURCE: “Difficulties Felt by Anglicans, I,” in A Historical Commentary on the Major Catholic Works of Cardinal Newman, edited by Peter Lang, 1993, pp. 35-47.

In the following essay, Griffin concentrates on Newman's satirical lectures on the Oxford Movement in Difficulties Felt by Anglicans.

You do me an injustice, if you think, as I half-gathered from a sentence in it, that I speak contemptuously of those who now stand where I have stood myself. But persons like yourselves should recollect the reason why I left the Anglican Church was that I thought salvation was not to be found in it. The feeling could not stop there. If it led me to leave Anglicanism, it necessarily led me and leads me to wish others to leave it … Moreover, he [the convert] will feel most anxiously about those whom he has left in it, lest they should be receiving grace which...