John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.