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

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

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

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

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.

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.