In London, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has asked the faithful to “dig deep into our traditions and our resources to make sure that our prayer maintains a eucharistic heart and a eucharistic center,” citing a tradition, little engaged in recent times, of “spiritual communion.”
David Stewart
David Stewart, S.J., who was the London correspondent for America from 2014 to 2020, files from his native Scotland, where he now lives and works.
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A beloved London neighborhood is the star of ‘The Street’
Filmed over four years, the film is about the change that has come to Hoxton, the city’s latest chic, hipsterish district.
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Don’t ask for whom the Brexit bell tolls …
As a moment approaches that is certainly historically massive, one of great triumph or crushing disaster according to your Brexit leaning, Britons are winding ourselves up over a clockwork bell and getting into a flap about a flag.
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A U.K. Supreme Court ruling forces Boris Johnson to defend Brexit before Parliament
The highest court in the land ruled unanimously and unambiguously that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in attempting to suspend Parliament only weeks before Brexit, the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union, is set to take effect.
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Scottish court throws down another obstacle to no-deal Brexit, setting up possible constitutional crisis
On Wednesday morning, gasps followed the court’s ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request for a suspension had the “improper purpose of stymieing Parliament.”
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The weekend’s London protest is a foretaste of what comes next in the Brexit saga
Boris Johnson is trying to run out the clock and force a no-deal Brexit, writes David Stewart in his analysis of British politics. But suspending Parliament may be pushing things too far.
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What was the purpose of Donald Trump’s visit to the U.K.?
Protest against Mr. Trump’s visit—specifically that he had been honored with a full-blown state visit—was loud and visible on London’s streets although organizers conceded that the numbers fell below expectations and were below the huge numbers of protesters during his previous, non-state visit.
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Was a service to honor nuclear-weapons crews at Westminster Abbey blasphemous?
Senior clerics of the Church of England joined politicians from the nearby Houses of Parliament to give thanks for the United Kingdom’s seaborne nuclear deterrent. A more ill-judged, if not blasphemous, event could hardly be imagined.
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Brexit endtimes coming, ready or not
Parliament is being asked for the first time in history to enact something that it does not believe in.
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Teens school U.K. leaders on climate change
We are now relying on our children to act where we have failed, for their futures and that of their offspring.