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.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

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.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.