The Catholic faith of Charles Kennedy, who died suddenly on Tuesday, was an essential part of his identity as a Highland Scot. Yet the former leader of the Liberal Democrats rarely volunteered information about how his faith coloured his politics. He would, almost certainly, prefer to be remembered as a politician who was Catholic than as a Catholic politician. Nevertheless, several of his colleagues, especially fellow Catholics, believe his religion was vital to his perception of the world and its problems.“I think that faith coloured his general social philosophy. There was more than an element of Catholic Social Teaching in his social democratic and liberal values, but he would have considered it inappropriate to say so,” says John Pugh, the MP for Southport and one of the