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

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

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

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

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

The past is what the present is doing now.