2018 sees not only the centenary of the Armistice but also the new political order that emerged in Europe after the collapse of four mighty Empires. The period saw new nations being proclaimed and borders being drawn, and, unsurprisingly, the proc...
I feel deeply moved to be with you in Tyne Cot because my grandfather, Eric Hudson, fought here in the Battle of Passchendaele and survived. We gather here in a spirit of what the ancient Romans called 'pietas'. 'Pietas', for the Romans, m...
I first heard of Blessed Oscar Romero in 1978/9. I was a student at university but one day bought a booklet of his sermons. As I read the words, the way in which Archbishop Oscar Romero, to be proclaimed a saint next week, spoke of justice, the ri...
Through the International Citizen Service (ICS), Emily McGoohan, a young parishioner of Ss Alban and Stephen Parish in St Albans, volunteered with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) for 10 weeks in rural Cambodia, where she worked on a l...
The Home Office has rejected calls to introduce national buffer zones around abortion clinics in September, with Home Secretary Sajid Javid explaining that 'it would not be proportionate response, considering the experiences of the majority of h...