Within a few minutes of meeting Cardinal Pell at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of his upcoming Thomas More lecture in Oxford – the reason he was in England for a week in November. The lecture – which packed out the Oxford University Chaplaincy – at the Newman Society (he gave its inaugural lecture many years ago) was to have been called “The Suffering Church in a Post-Christian Society”. But Pell tells me he is dropping the phrase “Post-Christian”. The new title became “The Suffering Church in a Suffering World”.