A CEREMONY of breaking the ground marked the start of work on a memorial at Virginia Theological Seminary, in the United States, last week, to enslaved and free African Americans who were labourers there between 1823 and 1951. PRESIDENT TRUMP’s deployment of the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis has been denounced by the Bishop of West Tennessee, the Rt Revd Rhoebe Roaf. POPE LEO has told members of the European Parliament’s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue that: “European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism, that is, a style of thinking and acting that affirms the value of religion while preserving the distinction — not separation or confusion — from the political sphere.”