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.

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.

But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the papacy in the Catholic Church today is such a challenge that it can change anyone.

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

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

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.