 Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. |
| In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. |
| In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. |
| In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. |
| Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety. |
| A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. |
| To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. |
| So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. |
| One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. |
| To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. |
| Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. |
| The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. |
| It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity. |
| And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. |
| St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. |
| Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. |
| A public is a necessary fiction. |
| The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. |
| Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm. |
| The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's. |
