One of the most influential English theologians of the post-Vatican Council era also co-founded two groundbreaking Christian communities dedicated to “radical hospitality” and raised 12 children; her daughter remembers a loving, imperfect and complex woman of extraordinary energy and vision
The Catholic thing
Rosemary Luling Haughton (1927-2024)

‘My mother wrote books ... She would curl up on the sofa, Biro in hand and a foolscap pad on her lap’. Rosemary Haughton in the mid-1960s.
PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF ELIZABETH HAUGHTON
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