Catholics: Britain's Largest Minority

Over the last one hundred years Britain's Catholics have made a long journey from the margins of society to positions of great influence and power. Dennis Sewell charts the lives of Catholic men and women whose voices, whether in politics, journalism, literature or the arts, have made a distinctively Catholic contribution to our national conversation. A host of public figures have joined the Catholic procession down the years. But is Catholicism merely a fashionably nostalgic accessory, as its critics allege, or the only 'ism' to have survived the 20th century intact?