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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.