Where Would Newman Be Today?

A question about the Anglican church's faithfulness to teaching the dogmatic truth for all time was a concern that Cardinal Newman had. His gracefulness towards all he learned from being an Anglican is clearly seen in this piece written by him. Anyone who has spent time in the C of E and gotten beneath her tat can find a great historical love for her theological past but it is becoming more openly debatable as to how much of that substance remains that moved Cardinal Newman to speak these words. I say that with self-critical evaluation realizing that there is a real danger lurking that is preying upon the church. Looking at the distance from Newman's writing to today, I must wonder how he might evaluate this outlook in the present situation. Secularism's great rise of influence on the church and her mission opens the door for a lot of speculation as to how Newman would now respond. The point about the nation bringing the church down to its level is more true than we can imagine I believe. It's not happening; it has happened. Will she rise above it? Now that there are 4 million Catholics in England, any guess as to what his critique would be today? This question is an interesting one for discussion. It's an open question for friendly speculation. Newman was quite the man in his day and daily I ask for his prayers for me and the Church.

UPDATE: I just saw this blog from Fr. Ed Tomlinson SSC. It makes the point really.
A portion of the writing referred to above follows:

In no other sense surely; the Church of England has been the instrument of Providence in conferring great benefits on me;—had I been born in Dissent, perhaps I should never have been baptized; had I been born an English Presbyterian, perhaps I should never have known our Lord's divinity; had I not come to Oxford, perhaps I never should have heard of the visible Church, or of Tradition, or other Catholic doctrines. And as I have received so much good from the Anglican Establishment itself, can I have the heart or rather the want of charity, considering that it does for so many others, what it has {342} done for me, to wish to see it overthrown? I have no such wish while it is what it is, and while we are so small a body. Not for its own sake, but for the sake of the many congregations to which it ministers, I will do nothing against it. While Catholics are so weak in England, it is doing our work; and, though it does us harm in a measure, at present the balance is in our favour. What our duty would be at another time and in other circumstances, supposing, for instance, the Establishment lost its dogmatic faith, or at least did not preach it, is another matter altogether. In secular history we read of hostile nations having long truces, and renewing them from time to time, and that seems to be the position which the Catholic Church may fairly take up at present in relation to the Anglican Establishment.

Doubtless the National Church has hitherto been a serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors, more fundamental than its own. How long this will last in the years now before us, it is impossible to say, for the Nation drags down its Church to its own level; but still the National Church has the same sort of influence over the Nation that a periodical has upon the party which it represents, and my own idea of a Catholic's fitting attitude towards the National Church in this its supreme hour, is that of assisting and sustaining it, if it be in our power, in the interest of dogmatic truth. I should wish to avoid every thing, (except indeed under the direct call of duty, and this is a material exception,) which went to weaken its hold upon the public mind, or to unsettle its establishment, or to embarrass and lessen its maintenance of those great Christian and Catholic principles and doctrines which it has up to this time successfully preached.