The process of offering a welcome to Catholics who have lost touch with the Church can be a delicate one. Landings, a programme designed to help them negotiate their return, is being relaunched next month One thing all of us have in ­common is the desire to love and to be loved (especially by the ones we love). Love brings a great deal of joy and fulfilment but it also includes the risks of misunderstanding, conflict, division and alienation. The need of healing, forgiveness and ­reconciliation is also common to all of us. The key to meeting this need is in our willingness to accept our own brokenness and vulnerability, our dependence on God’s love and forgiveness – and in our acceptance of others in spite of their faults and failings. Opportunities for healing,