A public is a necessary fiction.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

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.

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

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?

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.