French authorities’ move to shut down the camp put further pressure on the British government to accept more refugees, especially unaccompanied children.
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.
London town is falling up? Saving a famous skyline from too-rapid development
Along the River Thames, to the east and the west, new tall buildings shoot up almost monthly.
Preparing a Jesuit harvest at a ploughing festival in Ireland
The biggest attraction of all was the presence of the crucifix of John Sullivan, S.J., an Irish Jesuit who died in 1933.
A year after a toddler’s drowning shamed the world, refugee perils persist
“This is not a religious or political issue; it is a human tragedy, but one which, with determination, we can do something about.”
Great Britain’s Olympic investment pays off, but at what cost?
Questions remain over whether these new Olympic heights filter down to the grassroots or encourage British kids to be fitter, healthier or more virtuous.
In the U.K., bad puns and double entendre are for everyone
We need cheering up from time to time and it rsquo s hardly irresponsible if we take the opportunity when it presents itself The digital universe responsible for much that is woeful has expanded possibilities for fun too in a way we could never have imagined Almost exactly four years ago at
Brexit votes splits the United Kingdom at the seams
The prevailing view in Westminster is that “Scotland is gone.”
Pope Francis reminds us that Christians are not engaged in a war with Islam but extremism
The martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel, an elderly priest in northern France, is shocking by any decent standards.
A rather dignified Brexit in a brutal transition for outgoing PM David Cameron
For all our supposed refined gentility, the process for changing the leader of the government in the United Kingdom borders on the brutal.
Brelax, don’t do it: How to survive post-Brexit trauma
Many of the ordinary people of Northern Ireland and of Scotland are deeply concerned about the Brexit vote.
