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 For a few decades in the middle of the last century, there was no­where a Cath­olic author would rather have been published than by the house run by Frank and Maisie. Activists both, the energetic Francis “Frank” Sheed was born in Australia in 1897 and trained as a lawyer; soon after arriving in London in 1920, he became one of the star apologists of the Catholic Evidence Guild addressing bemused crowds at Speakers’ Corner in London. Mary “Maisie” Ward, eight years his senior, was born into one of the most venerable British families of Catholic writers. Her mother