A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.