Catherine Pepinster

Catherine Pepinster is a journalist, broadcaster and author.

She has worked for magazines about the built environment and architecture and later joined the Independent and Independent on Sunday for 10 years, rising to executive editor. She then became the first woman editor of the Catholic weekly, The Tablet, where she worked from 2003 to 2016. She now writes for a variety of publications including The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times, mostly on religion, and commentates regularly on TV and radio.

A long-standing contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, Catherine also works as UK Development Officer for the Anglican Centre in Rome, as a research consultant for St George’s House, Windsor, and a visiting lecturer in journalism at City, University of London.

Catherine is a trustee of Bible Society and of Kaleidoscope Project, a charity which works with people with addiction problems. In 2017, her book The Keys and The Kingdom – the British and the papacy from John Paul II to Francis was published. She is now working on a book on martyrdom.