St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The past is what the present is doing now.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

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

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

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

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