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

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

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

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.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

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

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.