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 In March 1943, our headmistress at St Hedda’s on the North York Moors, said Canon Wilson, our parish priest, was about to make an announcement. Announcements by Canon Wilson meant we had to sit still and be silent.He told us that Cardinal Arthur Hinsley had died and that a Mass would be said for him. We listened quietly as we heard about the carpenter’s son, born in Carlton, near Selby, Yorkshire, who in 1917 had been appointed Rector of the English College in Rome. Hinsley, we were told, had loved to tell of the time he spent as the parish priest of an Italian country parish. One day he w