There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

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.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

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

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.