There is much excitement at the news that the heroic virtues of Mary Ward, the founder of the Order which founded our school, have been recognised by the Congregation of the Causes of Saints. The news rather got lost in the British secular press, which was more interested in the story that John Paul II and Pius XII had both had their heroic virtues recognised too.
It is perhaps worth noting that it was Pius XII who did most to revive Mary Ward's reputation this century when he referred to her as "that incomparable woman" in his speech in 1951 to the Congress of the Apostolate of the Laity and John Paul II who wrote this inspiring address to students at Mary Ward schools in 1985.
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