Near La Sapienza in Rome – the modern campus of an old university – there is a church dedicated to an English philosopher, statesman and martyr: San Tommaso Moro.
Don Andrea Celli is the priest of the parish, and La Sapienza’s proximity has encouraged him to adopt university students from across the Eternal City, as part of a school of civic and political formation enlightened by Church teaching.
Fifty-two of these students came to London for a four-day visit centred on the life and example of one of England’s most famous martyr saints. Almost by accident, I was given the task of welcoming them to the Palace of Westminster and talking to them about British politics.
