Catherine Pepinster is a journalist, author and broadcaster. After many years in national newspapers she was editor of The Tablet, the independent Catholic weekly for thirteen years. For the past five years she has been writing for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, mostly about religion, and also for specialist religion titles. Catherine has also been a contributor to 'Thought For The Day' on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for eighteen years.
It's a delight to walk the faith trail trodden by monarchs past, the monarch present and the monarch to come with the discriminating mind and poised pen of Catherine Pepinster as one's guide. It's real knowledge; impressively transmitted. Her faith is central to the character of The Queen and fundamental to the understanding of her reign yet in our secular time this is not always fully appreciated. Thanks to Defenders of the Faith, it is now. -- Peter Hennessy fascinating, thorough and timely...[Pepinster] shines particularly in the task of sketching the faith of the Queen, about which, as she rightly remarks, the stacks of royal biographies make barely a mention . * Daily Telegraph (5-star review) * The most valuable part of Defenders of the Faith shows how Queen Elizabeth II has responded to the vastly changed ecumenical and interfaith picture since the Second World War. -- Richard Chartres * Church Times * It's a delight to walk the faith trail trodden by monarchs past, the monarch present and the monarch to come with the discriminating mind and poised pen of Catherine Pepinster as one's guide. It's real knowledge; impressively transmitted. Her faith is central to the character of The Queen and fundamental to the understanding of her reign yet in our secular time this is not always fully appreciated. Thanks to Defenders of the Faith, it is now. -- Peter Hennessy fascinating, thorough and timely...[Pepinster] shines particularly in the task of sketching the faith of the Queen, about which, as she rightly remarks, the stacks of royal biographies make barely a mention . * Daily Telegraph (5-star review) * The most valuable part of Defenders of the Faith shows how Queen Elizabeth II has responded to the vastly changed ecumenical and interfaith picture since the Second World War. -- Richard Chartres * Church Times *