“We do not know, but today we are permitted to hope that, in spite of all ideological differences and in spite of so much horror in the profane history of the world, many, perhaps even all human beings, belong to those in whom the free, gratuitous and overflowing grace of God is victorious. This is a conviction that one can and, indeed, must have… I fear eternal damnation in particular cases and yet I hope for the possibility of a final apokatastasis panton (salvation of all), in spite of the fact that this hope is constantly being undermined by our empirical experience.”

K. Rahner