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

The Gospel has to be the norm.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

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

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.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

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.