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

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

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

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.

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.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.