Bishops and police chiefs around the world gathered in London last weekend for a second meeting of the Santa Marta Group, which marks a new era of cooperation between the Church and the statutory authorities to combat human trafficking
Vincent Nichols had already nailed his colours to the mast, long before the conference he chaired last week at which everyone who was anyone in the battle to stop human trafficking gathered in London’s Lancaster House. Because the truth is, this will be the justice issue for which this cardinal hopes to go down in history, just as his predecessor-but-one at Westminster, Basil Hume, took up cudgels on behalf of those who had been wrongly accused of terrorist offences in Ireland.In the 1980s, when Cardinal Hume was fighting to clear the names of the Gu
11 December 2014, The Tablet
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