But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

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.

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.

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

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

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.