04 December 2014, The Tablet

Friendship at the Lord’s table

by Annabel Miller

 
On a visit to a centre for refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol,it struck a reporter that she had discovered the kind of project that would be close to Pope Francis’ heart and his wish to see ‘a poor Church for the poor’ According to the style papers, Bristol is a town where your local baker is an “artisan”, all graffiti is fine art and every sausage come from Gloucester Old Spot pigs. The reality is a bit different. In the Clifton district, it is true, there are gorgeous eighteenth-century mansions, tree-lined avenues and fashionable coffee shops. But the money that built Clifton came partly from the slave trade, and down in the city centre, modern-day slave-masters – human traffickers, pimps and drug-dealers – are still hard at work.This is w
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