The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Today, the Lord puts us on guard against the self-reliance that puts a limit on his limitless love. He invites us to imitate his humility.

I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.