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

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

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

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.