People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.