Let’s create a world without racism: Columban Competition: Winning UK essay

The winning entry for Britain in the Columban Schools Competition, ‘End Racism’, was submitted by 15-year-old Kashaf Zahid, a pupil at Gumley House Convent School in Isleworth, West London. Here is her article, with comments below. My sister was sitting on the seat in front of mine, in a double decker bus. The bus is... Read More

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February 28, 2021

Medal awarded to British soldier killed at Guinness Brewery during Easter Rising sells for £1,300

A medal awarded to a British soldier killed in Dublin during the Easter Rising after he was mistaken for a Sinn Fein spy has sold at auction for £1,300. The 1914-15 Star plus copied research was being sold by a private collector and was expected to fetch £400-500. Lieutenant Basil Worswick died on 29th April... Read More

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August 26, 2020

British Museum removes bust of its slave-owning founding father

The British Museum has removed a bust of its founding father, who was a slave owner, and said it wanted to confront its links to colonialism. Hartwig Fischer, the institution’s director, revealed the likeness of Sir Hans Sloane has been placed in a secure cabinet alongside artefacts explaining his work in the context of the... Read More

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July 29, 2020

British MP speaks out about ‘hacking attempts’ against him

A Catholic British MP has spoken out about “hacking attempts” against him coming from inside Iran and Russia. Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, also explained how there had been “attempted troublemaking” using an email address pretending to be him based in mainland China. Mr Tugendhat, who serves as Tory MP for Tonbridge... Read More

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June 24, 2020

Women religious honored for work on pandemic’s front lines

Women religious working “on the front lines,” exposed to the coronavirus yet continuing to care for abandoned children, working to alleviate poverty, providing health care and helping victims of human trafficking are not “super women,” said Comboni Sr Alicia Vacas. Instead, they are women with great faith, compassion, generosity and determination, she said, “but also... Read More

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June 21, 2020

Soon to be beatified, London-born Italian teenager said to offer ‘model of sanctity’

Carlo Acutis, a London-born Italian teenager who used his computer skills to foster devotion to the Eucharist and will be beatified in October, offers a model of sanctity for Christians in a new era of lockdowns, a British Catholic who lived with his family said. “What’s struck me most is the exceptional simplicity of his... Read More

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May 14, 2020

Nigerian bishop: Murdered seminarian had courage of a martyr

A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping. One of the suspects said Michael Nnadi was killed because he kept asking his kidnappers “to repent and turn their lives around from their evil ways”, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto.... Read More

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May 6, 2020

Down Syndrome campaigner urges Stormont to reject ‘hurtful and offensive’ abortion laws

A campaigner with Down Syndrome has urged Stormont to reject “hurtful and offensive” British Government laws on abortion. A major change lifting restrictions on terminations in Northern Ireland was introduced in March. Ministers in Belfast have not introduced local provision after attorney general John Larkin QC raised legal points with Westminster’s intervention. Heidi Crowter, a... Read More

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