Newman became the first major "modernist" church figure (who was both influenced and admired by the Vatican II and post V2 Novus Ordo destroyers) when he wrote that "faith is akin to a seed that grows into a giant tree."
The modernist destroyers applied Newman's statement to Dogmatic Church Statements, thereby using it to "justify" their 180 degree changes they made concerning Catholic dogma, faith, and morals beginning in the 1960s and continuing to this very day .
Therefore, it's no surprise that Newman is getting this posthumous promotion.