Speaking to Independent Catholic News, Louise Zanré, the Director of JRS-UK, said: ‘The decision is unconscionable. It puts peoples’ lives at risk – and purely because of a nonsensical idea that rescuing people at sea is in some way a pul...
The flight to Phnom Penh revealed the enormous flood plains of Cambodia. At times it seemed as though we had flown over the coast but we were well inland. The floods are important for the rich agriculture of the country but it is important that th...
The Live Below the Line challenge invites participants to eat and drink for £1 a day for five days beginning 28 April and continuing through this week. Why £1? It’s the extreme poverty threshold beneath which 1.2 billion people worldwide survi...
Given at the Chapel of the Chelsea Pensioners on Remembrance Sunday 8 November 2015.
One hundred years ago, not today but at the beginning of May, John McCrae stood in the field of the second battle of Ypres, looking at the place where his fri...
by Fr Peter Michael Scott
I admire the honesty of the saints: ‘I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone,’ as written by St Francis of Assisi. Or: ‘sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath a...