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

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

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.