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.

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

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.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

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

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

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

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

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.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

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

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

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

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

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

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

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

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 to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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 the priests and bishops.

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

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.

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

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Communism is like one big phone company.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

There will be no communism.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.