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.

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

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.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

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

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

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.