Three Cardinals Charles de Foucauld in the New World and

in the New World and Africa

unburdened by anything cumbersome or cloying

he explains

Fleeing his former fellow associates

he served as priest-confessor to the Spanish King Philip IV

Three Cardinals Charles de Foucauld in the New World andBy 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.