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.

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 peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

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

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.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.