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How did Tract 90 relate the Thirty-nine Articles to the Council of Trent?

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St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman English prelate, theologian, and poet John Henry Newman converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845. He was made a cardinal in 1879.

In Tract 90, published in 1841, St. John Henry Newman sought to reconcile the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England with the teachings of the ancient and undivided church.1

By doing so, the tract appeared to suggest that the Articles were not inherently incompatible with the doctrines established by the Council of Trent, which had defined the Roman Catholic position during the Counter-Reformation. While Newman’s intent was to demonstrate the catholicity of the English church, the interpretation—most notably championed by his disciple W.G. Ward—that the Articles could be reconciled with Tridentine theology caused significant controversy, leading to the suspension of the Tracts for the Times and contributing to Newman’s eventual withdrawal from the Oxford movement.1