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

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.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.