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It's a moral question.
A public is a necessary fiction.
The past is what the present is doing now.
It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
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.
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
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.
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
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.
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.
It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
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.
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
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.
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.
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.
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.
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.