In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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

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

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

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.