Educating agents of change for a better world

10 September 2026, The Tablet

Cardinal Manning, hands crossed, at the Docks Strikes Conciliation Conference, 1889

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Catholic Social Teaching is enjoying a remarkable renaissance in Catholic schools in England and Wales, thanks in part to the leverage of the new Catholic Schools Inspectorate.

To be judged as Outstanding requires, among other things, that “pupils take a leading role in responding to the demands of Catholic Social Teaching and are proactive in finding ways of responding, locally, nationally and globally”. We’ve waited long enough for Catholic Social Teaching to be so prominent in our schools.

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