A tour of Spain with the wonderful Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School affords a brief break from news media.
No internet means a break from the abuse scandals and the deliberations of the youth synod. But both are in the back of my mind, inevitably, when travelling with a group of young people.
A kind of hyper-vigilance now feels necessary around children that precludes doing perfectly harmless things which I would once have thought nothing of doing – like bringing a camera on these trips, so magnificent is the architecture and so photogenic the sight of a robed choir against the carved choir stalls of Zamora Cathedral. Now I wouldn’t dream of being seen with a camera in such situations, lest it give rise to misinterpretation.
