Little public signs of faith are no harm. It's a sign that faith is not just a personal thing, but in a very simple way they are opportunities for us… - Richard Moth

We talk about Christmas traditionally as the season of good cheer, but I don't think that sort of Dickensian jollity really cuts the mustard in prison. I tend to take a slightly different slant; I describe it as the season of hope.

Remembering that every person has an innate God-given dignity is a key step on the path to effective criminal justice.

In these last fifty years since the foundation of the Diocese, so much has been done to build up the Church and in the proclamation of the Gospel and, with God's help, I look to guide and serve the Diocese to that same end.