Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

It's a moral question.

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

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

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.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.