I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

Let girls be girls and not brides

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.