It has been more than a decade since the Jesuits’ Campion House shut up shop. The grade-two listed building, on an eight-acre site in Osterley, west London, started life as a retreat house, then offered pre-seminary training but, due to falling numbers, was closed and later sold. Now, after overcoming planning hurdles, developers Linden Homes have transformed the property into eight flats. Virtually all have been sold, and the final apartment, which has two bedrooms, is currently on the m
02 November 2013, The Tablet
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To dehumanise and/or criminalise through language is always the beginning. The 20th century is littered with the most appalling crimes against our humanity which were facilitated in the first instance through linguistic objectification.
Messrs Cameron and Hammond, as ministers of state and servants of the Crown and us, should be setting an example rather than giving legitimacy to a mob mentality. Even today, he talked about not allowing migrants to "break into Britain", more criminal language in every sense.
Our bishops, Anglican and Catholic, as well as other religious leaders should be leading the challenge to the use of such defamatory and objectifying descriptions.