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» 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.

» At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

» Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

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

» This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

» To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

» 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.

» Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

» Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

» The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

» Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

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

» 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.

» To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

» One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

» We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

» The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

» I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

» I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

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

» Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

» All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

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

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

» Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

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