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
When Fritz Schumacher, my father, was received into the Catholic Church in 1971, six years before his death, he said he had “made legal a long-standing illicit love affair”.It had certainly been a long journey. He began as an arrogant and ardent scientific materialist who had no time for religion. Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1911, he followed his father into economics. He was an exceptionally clear thinker, penetrating to the core of a problem, proposing a practical solution and then having the courage to act on it.It was this clarity of thought and courage to act that eventually caused him
22 October 2015, The Tablet
175 years – 50 great catholics / Barbara Wood on E.F. Schumacher
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