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

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

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

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

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.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

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.