The Gospel has to be the norm.

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

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

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.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

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.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.