Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.