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.

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

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

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

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.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

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