Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

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.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

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.