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Léonie and Stratford Caldecott

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. Stratford lives in Oxford, 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. 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. As a catechist and mother she has engaged in many initiatives for young people, including the book series “Second Spring Catechesis.”


For articles and books by Stratford and Leonie Caldecott see
www.secondspring.co.uk.


Version: 15th May 2010

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