There  he  retired  with  a  few  others.  In  1843
he  published  a  retractation  of  all  the  hard
things  he  had  said  of  the  Roman  Church,
and  resigned  St.  Mary's.  One  further  event
greatly  moved  him,  and  this  was  the  establish-
ment of  the  Jerusalem  Bishopric  (q.v.),  the
ill-fated  project  of  Bunsen.  He  wrote  a  letter
to  the  archbishop  publicly  protesting  against
this.  But  though  it  may  be  thought  to
have  intensified  his  feeling,  this  incident  did
not  originate  or  even  accelerate  his  action.
In  1845  a  successful  attempt  was  made  to
censure  W.  G.  Ward  for  the  Ideal  of  a  Christian
Church,  but  the  proctors'  veto  (exercised  by
Church  {q.v.)  and  Guillemard)  saved  Newman
from  insult.  He  was  engaged  on  that  essay,
afterwards  published,  On  the.  Development  of
Christian  Doctrine,  which  is  in  some  ways  the
most  original  of  all  his  works.  Before  the
book  was  really  completed  he  took  the  final
step,  and  was  received  into  the  Roman  Church
on  9th  October  by  the  Passionist,  Father
Dominic.
After  an  interlude  at  various  places  in
England,  Newman  was  sent  to  Rome  for  a
year.  In  1847  he  founded  the  congregation
of  the  Oratory  of  St.  Philip  Neri  in  Birming-
ham, which  in  1852  was  removed  to  the
suburb  of  Edgbaston.  This  remained  his
home  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  except  for  the
short  and  intermittent  sojourn  in  Dublin.
