Samuel Burke OP

Dominican Friar | RC Priest | Chaplain @RoyalNavy | Formerly Chaplain & Law Tutor @EdinburghUni & Associate Lecturer/Theology @YourStMarys | Barrister | Pilgrim

[Samuel Burke OP @samuelburke]

Happy Solemnity of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary https://t.co/5Zs5R9kEoI

[Royal Navy @RoyalNavy]

#ArmedForcesWeek is here!

Throughout the country, communities will be coming together this week to say thank you to our Armed Forces.

As the world is becoming more unpredictable, we are thankful for their continuous support and relentless work to keep us safe every day.

[Samuel Burke OP @samuelburke]

Henry VIII said of Fisher “The Pope may send unto him the red hat. I shall make sure there is no head for it to fit upon…”

Yet whose head is now in glory?

[Samuel Burke OP @samuelburke]

Happy Feast of Ss John Fisher and Thomas More (1/2)

[Samuel Burke OP @samuelburke]

some extracts from an old gem by Fr. Henry Sebastian Bowden, "Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors” (2/2)

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

My Genocide Determination Bill had its first reading today, with a powerful debate in @HouseofLords about Government policy on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes. Peers from all sides argued for a more coherent strategy which challenges atrocities and impunity and promotes justice and accountabilityWatch it here:

A debate on the Bill will take place on July 17th. Opposition parties and individual Government Peers have promised support but Ministers - who supported it when in Opposition - say they will oppose it.

Please help us change their minds.

Watch the debate in full:
https://t.co/xXmwh6ngBw

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

Privileged today to be with @MPIainDS at the unveiling of the new statue of Tank Man. Congratulations to @JGBartholomew and Museum of Communist Terror for this important initiative. Wonderful to hear the distinguished journalist Kate Adie describe her firsthand experiences as she watched the massacre unfold Tiananmen Square and the plea of protestors to her to “tell the world.” She is right that “we must never forget.”@bbcworldservice @CitySamuel @ftchina @edwardlucas @CECCgov @chinaaid

[Britannia Royal Naval College @DartmouthBRNC]

2026 Lourdes Pilgrimage 🇫🇷🙏

With a focus on welcome, 🤗 reflection and listening👂

3️⃣4️⃣ attending from @DartmouthBRNC

Making up part of the largest @RoyalNavy group to attend🫡🇬🇧

#SOLL2026 #HailFullOfGrace

@CaptAndyBray
@RoyalNavy

[FalklandsinUK @FalklandsinUK]

On this day in 1982, HMS Coventry was attacked and sunk by the Argentine Air Force with the loss of 20 lives.

As ever, our thoughts are with those of Coventry’s crew and their friends and family as we remember their sacrifice. 🇫🇰🇬🇧

#Falklands44

[Aleteia @AleteiaFR]

Au cœur de Lourdes, le Pèlerinage Militaire International (PMI) a rassemblé, du 22 au 24 mai, près de 17 000 militaires. Entre le silence des basiliques et le tumulte joyeux des rencontres, une même quête traverse les pas de ces pèlerins : celle d’une paix à vivre et à porter.

[Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Lourdes @lourdes_france]

Le peuple de Dieu marche vers son Fils à Lourdes.

Une 66ème édition du PMI qui illumine la nuit lourdaise et fait planer un beau souffle d’espérance.

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

This evening in @UKParliament with Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP @MPIainDS I cochaired a meeting of @APPGNK2024 addressed by Thae Yong-ho - deputy North Korean ambassador to the UK who defected in 2016.

There were interventions from Sir Iain; from former Chief of UK Defence Staff, Field Marshall Lord Houghton; from former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Sir Julian Lewis MP; from former Lib Dem Leader @timfarron ; and from co-founder and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party's human rights commission @benedictrogers .

Mr.Thae told the meeting that many of the 11,000 North Korean soldiers who have been sent to fight for Putin in Ukraine have died while been used as human minesweepers.

Around 2,300 North Korean soldiers have died in Ukraine.

The meeting also heard how a United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report described North Korea as a State  that "does not have any parallel in the contemporary world" and which called for its leaders to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity @HumanRightsCtte

300,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in a network of political prison camps. Hundreds of thousands of inmates have perished.

Mr.Thae described religious persecution @dsnorthnorth and the suppression of all dissent.

The meeting heard how a 22-year-old man was publicly executed for listening to  South Korean songs and watching films.

Mr.Thae said his visits to @UKParliament while he was deputy Ambassador had convinced him to reject dictatorship and to work for democratic freedoms. @YvetteCooperMP @JennyChapman @AlistairCarns @amcarmichaelMP @Vernon_Coaker
@FortifyRights
@CSW_UK

[Britannia Royal Naval College @DartmouthBRNC]

Team @DartmouthBRNC

Pushing on to finish the path for the…🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Be More Amy Challenge

1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣km
1️⃣1️⃣ Legs
2️⃣ Days

Let’s help honour Amy’s legacy 🫡

To donate visit https://t.co/8hJHdjEX4P

[BFBS Forces News @ForcesNews]

"It will always be the people who deliver operational success"🗣️

Royal words of encouragement from Princess Anne

The Princess Royal, earlier this week, served as the guest of honour at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, and gave a speech to serving personnel

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

The death has been announced of Christopher Graffius. A good man and a good friend - he will be sorely missed by his family and by his friends. May he now rest in peace. My tribute: https://t.co/fAcyocerRN @FrancisTDavis

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

Br. Guy Consolmagno was once a lecturer in planetary science and astronomy at Harvard and MIT. But he left that academic world behind to become a religious brother - and today, he leads the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world. Here, he speaks to me about how science and faith CAN go together.

[Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. @LawrenceOP]

Illustrating today's Mass reading:
"Speak, LORD, your servant is listening!"
https://t.co/TUei7HQ6zz
📷 Door panel from Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

@UKHouseofLords @FCDOGovUK @YvetteCooperMP @JennyChapman @MPIainDS @BobBlackman @HoAbedini @timfarron @alexsobel @HumanRightsCtte @4FreedominIran @DominicPenna @TomTugendhat @JubileeC @JubileeCampaign @SophieDRich @SamuelBrownback @tozzi_piero I raised the killing of protesters in Iran - the case of 23 year old Rubina Aminian, the 1,922 Iranians executed by the regime last year, the death of Mahsa Aminia for discarding her hijab and the need to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.