Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

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

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.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

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.