And clarification on contentious quotation....
Q. You have been reported as saying that after Benedict XVI “there is going to be another conservative Pope – perhaps the last before a great explosion in the Church”. Did you say that?
A. No! I’ve certainly been misquoted here. I have never said ‘another conservative pope’. I don’t like the word ‘conservative’ or the word ‘liberal’ in this context. When I became archbishop of Westminster I was asked, “Are you a conservative or a liberal?”, and I replied, “No, I’m a Catholic, and I am sensitive, I hope, to the mind and teaching of the Church in what I proclaim and what I stand for.”
