The Westminster Cardinals The Past and the Future

by Walsh, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780860124597
• ISBN10: 0860124592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-27
• Publisher: Burns & Oates Ltd

Summary

This book will look at the lives of ten men who have been appointed by Rome to head the Roman Catholic Church in this country. The biographies will be set against the background of four main topics: 1. in 1850 RCs were still a marginalized community, an uneasy amalgam of recusant families Irish immigrants and distinguished converts. The challenge was to create an indigenous Catholicism. 2. The Church in Britain had to contend with a constituency which tended to be poor and illiterate. Part of the Archbishops' drive was to boost education and thus drive Catholics out of poverty 3. Relations with the Church of England and the wish to preserve Catholic identity. 4. Catholics were and are increasingly a significant identifiable section of British society.

Author Biography

Michael J. Walsh was until recently Librarian at Heythrop College, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Nicholas Wiseman 2. Henry Edward Manning 3. Herbert Vaughan  4. Francis Alphonsus Bourne 5. Arthur Hinsley 6. Bernard Griffin 7. William Godfrey 8. John Carmel Heenan 9. George Basil Hume 10. Cormac Murphy O'Connor Bibliography