One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

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

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.