John Henry Newman answers Mr. Kingsley’s public accusations, especially the charge of untruthfulness, while defending both his own integrity and the Catholic Church. He explains that Kingsley’s interpretation fails because of a fundamental difference in intellectual perspective, then undertakes the painful task of recounting his religious development: an imaginative childhood largely untouched by Catholicism, his Anglican formation, the influence of Hugh Rose and the ecclesiastical movement against religious liberalism, and his gradual withdrawal from Anglicanism between 1841 and 1845. Newman insists that his earlier positions arose from his study of Anglican authorities, not Roman influence, and that he discouraged conversions while still seeking reconciliation with his conscience. As a Catholic, he reports complete peace: intellectual difficulties remain, but they are not the same as doubt.