| Stratford
Caldecott is the editor of Second
Spring journal for the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New
Hampshire, and of Humanum - the
forthcoming online journal of the John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC.
Formerly a Senior Editor at Routledge, HarperCollins and T&T Clark, he
serves on the editorial boards of Communio, The Chesterton Review, Oasis,
and the Catholic Truth Society in London.
He has written and edited books on J.R.R.
Tolkien, the Seven Sacraments, the historian Christopher Dawson, and
liturgical reform in the Catholic Church. His most recent book Beauty for
Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education was published by Brazos
Press in 2009. He has also organized and spoken frequently at conferences,
taught at a number of colleges and universities,and written and published
widely on Christian apologetics, theology, and cultural themes in magazines
and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Touchstone, This
Rock, Parabola and the National Catholic Register. Stratford
lives in Oxford, where he studied Philosophy as an undergraduate, and is
currently a Research Fellow at St Benet's Hall.
Léonie
Caldecott was educated at the French Lycée in London and Oxford University, where she read French and Philosophy. The winner of the Catherine Pakenham Award for Young Women Journalists, she has since written for secular newspapers and magazines as well as religious ones on both sides of the Atlantic, including the
Sunday Times, Village Voice, New York Times Book Review, Il Sabato, Communio, Catholic World Report, Inside the Vatican, National Catholic Register, Touchstone and
The Chesterton Review, and a regular column for the Catholic
Herald. Two of her articles have been reprinted in The Best Spiritual Writing series. She contributed to the BBC TV series
Women of Our Century, and wrote the book that accompanied it. She also contributed to several collections, such as
Makers of Modern Culture (RKP) and British Catholic Heroines
(Gracewing). She has written on Blessed John Henry Newman and
St Therese of Lisieux for CTS. Her most recent book is What Do Catholics Believe?
(Granta 2008) and she is the author of
Divine Comedy: a Theresian Mystery Play, performed at the Oxford Oratory in the fall of 2009. The mother of three children, she lives in Oxford with her husband Stratford, with whom she co-founded the Centre for Faith & Culture and co-edits the journal of the
Centre,
Second Spring. As a catechist and mother she has engaged in many initiatives for young people, including the book series “Second Spring Catechesis.”
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