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

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

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.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

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.

We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.