Andy Lewis, Author at Catholic Herald

Andy Lewis

How I caught the running bug (with a little help from St Paul)

September 18, 2020

I never set out to be a “runner”. In fact, I always thought they were a bit of a strange lot. But today running has become a big part of my life, and one of my goals for 2020 is to run a marathon in under four hours. So what happened? In July 2018 I

School students can help transform their area. I’ve seen it happen

August 14, 2020

St Bonaventure’s, the school in east London where I teach, has long had an association with community organising. We’re a short bus ride from the docks where Cardinal Manning famously intervened on behalf of striking workers. More recently, a student at St Bonaventure’s helped to inspire the Living Wage campaign. In 2001, Fr John Armitage

Will Catholic Religious Education survive?

July 27, 2018

A new report raises the prospect of state-appointed 'experts' deciding what Catholic schools should teach

British schools: Can Catholic RE survive?

July 26, 2018

A new challenge to the bishops’ authority In the last few years a series of reports have called for major reforms to Religious Education. The most recent comes from the former home secretary Charles Clarke (pictured) and the academic Linda Woodhead. “We are living,” they write, “through the single biggest change in the religious and cultural landscape

Tackling anti-Catholic myths at the chalkface

September 14, 2017

Anti-Catholic myths present themselves at my door fairly often: as an RE teacher working in the classroom, I know that there is a lot of misinformation out there – especially about the Church’s role in history and about religion and science. Sometimes kids have heard these myths from the media or their parents. Sometimes it

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