John Henry Newman Heretically Taught That The Salvation Dogma Has Exceptions

It was recently announced that Antipope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman (who died in 1890) to be a “Doctor of the Church”. Newman was a famous writer who is perhaps best known for his work called An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. While Newman was very learned, and he did make many interesting points about ecclesiastical history, his understanding of the aforementioned matter was severely flawed. He taught things that are directly contrary to Catholic teaching. We might expand upon this fact. Contrary to Newman’s flawed understanding of dogma and how it relates to divine revelation, the true understanding of it (based on the official pronouncements of the Chair of St. Peter) is covered in our recent video: To Understand Catholic Dogma You Need To Know This.

Newman also taught that the dogma Outside The Church There Is No Salvation has exceptions. That is heretical, and it represented a failure to understand and believe in papal infallibility and the unique protections given to popes when they teach the entire Church. Newman’s statement on that matter was even condemned as a rejection of the salvation dogma by Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton (who himself was a liberal on the salvation issue). We covered that in this video/article: Pope Pius IX Did Not Teach Salvation Outside The Church

Newman’s heretical statement on this matter is another example of how the denial of the salvation dogma (which was the key to the Great Apostasy) started (in various fallible sources) before Vatican II.