‘I have been arrested about 28 times!’

Rev Sue Parfitt became a nun straight from university, then trained first as a social worker then a priest. Now aged 83 and a protestor with Christian Climate Action, Sue says Christians should be leading the way in addressing the impending climate catastrophe

I was born into a Christian family in South Wales, and brought up near Newport. My mother was 43 and my dad was 50 when I was born. They’d lost their firstborn, a boy, from appendicitis when he was four, and I came eight years later.