An Acknowledgement; 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; Index
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 Archbishops̀ drive was to boost education and thus drive Catholics out of poverty 3. Relations wit
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index
