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their ideas have left a permanent mark on Catholic and secular thought alike

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Three Cardinals Walter Farrell their ideas have left aBy E. E. Reynolds John Henry Newman. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. Henry Edward Manning. These three men, Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, were the leading players in the development of the Church in England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Absent their distinctive and powerful contributions, the English Catholic Church would have been sorely impoverished, its growth stunted, its character encumbered by undue Anglican attachments.