Catholic education: a church divided
December 30th, 2009
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Even in today’s litigious society it seems faintly bizarre that a Roman Catholic diocese should pursue one of its own schools over its ‘unfair’ admissions policy, especially when that school, the Cardinal Vaughan in Holland Park, is one of the best comprehensives in the country. But that is what has happened, with the Schools Adjudicator finding mainly for the diocese and against the school. He holds it to have breached the toughened-up admissions code in his determination published yesterday, as we report in today’s Times.