Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

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.

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.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

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

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

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.