Despite the greatly improved media image of the church under Pope Francis, it still faces an abyss of incomprehension when it uses its language in communicating, especially to this millennial generation. It has first to bring them to silence, to confront an often-unconscious hunger for meaning. To ask questions before giving the answers. That throws a kind of rickety bridge over the abyss. It might frighten the protesters at the gate. But it is just the kind of connection that the lightness of the Holy Spirit likes to dance across.

(The Tablet, May 2015, Laurence Freeman OSB)