The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

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.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

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