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.

He was elected provincial of England in 1988 then Master of the Dominican Order in 1992. Starting in 2002 he became again a simple member of the Dominican community of Oxford. The subtlety of his thinking together with the simplicity and depth of his language and his strong sense of humor made him a force to be reckoned with in the Catholic Church.