Stratford Caldecott,
MA (Oxon.), FRSA, is the editor of Second
Spring journal for the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire,
and of Humanum – the online book-review 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 book Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education was
published by Brazos Press in 2009, and a sequel is in preparation. He has
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 G.K. Chesterton Fellow at St Benet's
Hall. With his wife Léonie and daughter Teresa he is the UK editor of the
monthly prayerbook Magnificat.
Léonie Caldecott,
MA (Oxon.),
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 two plays: Divine Comedy: a Theresian
Mystery Play, performed at the Oxford Oratory in the fall of 2009, and
The Quality of Mercy (about Blessed John Paul II) performed at the
Newman Rooms in 2010. As a catechist and mother she has engaged in many
initiatives for young people, including the Rose Round fellowship, and the book
series “Second Spring Catechesis.” The mother of three children, she lives in
Oxford with her husband Stratford. She is the UK editor, with her husband and
her daughter Teresa, of Magnificat.
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