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.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

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

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

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.

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

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.