A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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

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.

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

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

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

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.