Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'