Cardinal Vincent Nichols used an interview to condemn the “false notion” that Christianity and Islam are in conflict.
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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Jesuits in London join the demonstrations against Trump’s policies on refugees
Though the rallies were billed primarily as protests against the invitation to President Donald J. Trump, protesters also condemned the new U.S. administration’s travel ban against seven majority-Muslim countries.
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What a candid interview with Donald Trump means for US-British relations
Interfering with another nation’s politics having evidently become a thing, Donald Trump told his interviewer that Britain is “smart” for getting out of the European Union.
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Donald Trump has some choice words for a wind farm that spoils his view in Scotland
President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland’s first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.
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Why people of faith in the UK need to fight against bigotry and fear this Advent.
The upsurge of xenophobic and hate-filled public conduct in the United Kingdom requires an urgent response from people of faith.
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Europe’s union looks shakier than ever.
The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.
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Future Post-Truth: What happens when lying is just practical politics?
What is to be done? The world is full of anger.
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Unaccompanied Minors Neglected As Calais Camp Is Demolished
The move to shut down the camp put further pressure on the British government to accept more of the refugees who have been piling up at Calais, especially the camp’s many unaccompanied children. Almost all the refugees had been hoping to make it to Britain. In mid-October, as the first young p
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Will the U.K. parliament get its own Brexit vote?
What we thought was the probable next stage in the process to disentangle the United Kingdom from the European Union has been blocked by the court.
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Like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson will forever live in Shakespeare’s shadow.
Jonson set his play in Jacobean London—in Southwark and Blackfriars—in real time.