This chapter considers significant contributions that have been made to academic research in Catholic education in Britain over the past fifty years. After years of neglect, research in this significant sector of education has expanded exponentially in recent times. Arguably, the catalyst for this growing interest in the subject can be traced to the establishment of the Centre for Research and Development in Catholic Education (CRDCE) by Gerald Grace in 1997. Originally based at the Institute of Education (UCL), it is now situated at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. The setting up of the Centre was followed in 2002 by Grace’s ground-breaking publication, Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets and Morality. Subsequently, in 2009, the Centre launched the journal, ‘International Studies in Catholic Education’, which proved to be a significant incentive to promote fresh thinking and new scholarship, and an inspiration for academic research in the field of Catholic education across the world. The field is still underdeveloped, though, and there continues to be a need to provide a narrative of Catholic education that is based on empirical research. Therefore, the chapter will indicate a range of potential ‘forms of discourse’ (Grace, 2002a, p. 121) that would lend themselves to future enquiry.