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

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

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul..

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..

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are ….

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

Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can w….

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by wit….

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

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

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 rel….

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and ….

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 t….

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….

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

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….

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

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation….

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, a….

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering..

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions..