I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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.

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