In your LEADER “End of an ethos” (17 May), you raise the fundamental question of “what makes a school or college Catholic?” As a diocesan priest and school governor, I have yet to come across an agreed definition of what a Catholic school is and the meaning of the phrase “Catholic ethos”.The Sacred Heart Primary School in Blackburn is in a neighbouring town and for the sake of clarification it should be pointed out that for over five years it has been essentially a Muslim school in a Muslim community. It has almost no Catholic children, no Catholic classroom teachers, no Catholic leadership but is gifted with an excellent Muslim head teacher. The problem is not the school and its Catholic ethos but the lack of diocesan leadership and clear vision in the