“With Levinas, we dare call this “mutual responsibility” (EN 49/31) a “new spirituality” (AT 101/88): “the presence of per-sons in the full force of their irreplaceable identity, in the full force of their inevitable responsibility. To recognize and name the insoluble substances and keep them from exploding in violence, guile or politics, to keep watch where conflicts tend to break out, a new religiosity and solidarity – is loving one’s neighbour any-thing other than this?”

• Roger Burggraeve