Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.