His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has called for Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with “deep esteem”. We are to be respected and understood, he says, but at the same time Britain must not become “a God-free zone”.

After all he and his fellow clerics have said about the fanaticism of people like me, what with our “secular fundamentalism” and all, I’m really not sure what to make of this latest intervention from England’s leading Roman Catholic.

So how should we respond?