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.

A public is a necessary fiction.

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.

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

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.

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