How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

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.

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

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