To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best Robert Kennedy took up his brother’s torch and carried it to a point where he was trans­formed. Given the chance, he may have transformed America, too. He was not only the most interesting of the Kennedy brothers, but he was also a politician whose faith was expressed in the world he envisaged. He was the most devout of his siblings, never missing Mass, serving as an altar boy, influenced by what his biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger called his mother Rose’s “serene and inexhaustible piety”. Unlike Jack, he talked about his religion. Like his eldest brother, Joe, he was also