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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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