Father Paul Stenhouse MSC, who died in Sydney on November 19 at the age of 83, was the doyen of Australian Catholic editors. His reputation, in Australia and more widely, stemmed in part from the extraordinary length of his editorship of a Catholic monthly, Annals Australasia - a period of 51 years - but more crucially from the richness of his scholarly knowledge and the unerring quality of his literary and editorial contributions. His lifelong mission was to manifest the creative interaction between religious faith and cultural tradition.