I’ve been seeing a psychotherapist for a considerable period of time, and a psychiatrist. Very helpful. . . It’s not about saying, “Oh, it didn’t matter,” or anything like that, quite the reverse — how does one live with such a failure?
Justin Welby, former Archbishop of Canterbury, interview with Gyles Brandreth on the podcast Rosebud, 27 February
Will the Church continue to exist?
The late Pope Benedict XVI, in a hitherto unpublished letter, written little more than a year before his death and published in a new book, La fede del futuro
Young people are prey to the behaviour of social-media companies, prey to those abusing them on social media. Let’s tackle those rather than attack the young people and take away one of their few opportunities to mix
Philip North, Bishop of Blackburn, interview about whether under-16s should be banned from using social media, BBC Radio Lancashire, 1 March
While the truth may set you free, publishing it costs time, effort, and money. Buy a newspaper, take out a subscription, pay your licence fee
Anna McNamee, executive director of the Sandford St Martin Trust, lecture in Salisbury Cathedral, 23 February
[It] is clear that Britain’s political evangelicals have found a credible vehicle from which to push Christian ideas in the mainstream. The radical right has been consistently underestimated in Britain and the west. It would be careless to assume this road must lead nowhere
Robert Shrimsley, Financial Times, 26 February
Politicians can barely inspire most of us to go to a polling station every four years, never mind to church every week. Nigel Farage might be many things but he is not the next John Wesley
Jimmy Nicholls, The Critic, 28 February
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