Answers to the traditional question of identity are being reforged for today’s secular world, as Catherine Pepinster found out on a visit to St Jerome’s University in CanadaThere are still traces of snow on the ground as the crowd gathers at St Jerome’s University in the city of Waterloo, Ontario. But most of the group have shed their winter coats on a day that hints at spring just around the corner – aptly so, for this is a new beginning, a landmark moment in the history of this small Catholic university. The crowd consists of architects, builders, civic dignitaries, Diocese of Hamilton representatives and senior university staff, including president and vice chancellor Katherine Bergman, and they have come together for a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start