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How many Tracts for the Times did John Henry Newman write?
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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.
John Henry Newman wrote 24 of the Tracts for the Times.12
While he served as the editor for the entire series of 90 tracts published between 1833 and 1841, his personal contributions accounted for 24 of them. Among these, his final contribution, Tract 90, became particularly significant for its attempt to reconcile the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England with the teachings of the early, undivided church.12