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

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

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.

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

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

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

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