We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

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

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

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.