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.

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.

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

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

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

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