All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

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

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

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.

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