Diana Klein, who died on 24 November, at the age of 75, spent over 20 years working with legal high-flyers before she changed direction to become a catechetical adviser. But as Catherine Pepinster writes in her obituary on The Tablet’s website, for Diana, all the people she encountered through her role at the Diocese of Westminster, through editing The Tablet’s Parish Practice page, and later as teacher and mentor, were potential high-flyers. But rather than achieve dizzy career heights or earn huge salaries, Diana wanted the people she came into contact with in the Church to fly ever higher by coming closer to God.

Her friend Fr Bernard Cotter, parish priest of Murragh and Templemartin in the Diocese of Cork and Ross, tells us that when Diana arrived in London from her native New York as a young mother, “she had little or no faith. Nudged by her son, Nick, she made contact with her local parish. This led to a conversion experience which changed her life. She retained the zeal of a convert to the end.”