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

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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human Infinite Protection
It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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Change Unknown
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Age Day Invention Thinking
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 religions.
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Nation Peace Religion
God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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Deep God Love Protection Suffering
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Fact Religion Truth Yourself
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Agree Command Date Divine Rule
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Favor Myself Roman Way
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.
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Community God People Servant Understand
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.
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Forever Life Myself Point Position
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.
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Add Answer Focus Question Space Time Yourself
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.
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Essence Myself Nation Religion Right
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Abandonment Religious Truth
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.
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Cold Community End History War World
I’m not saying goodbye to life because I’m a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it’s time to move on.
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End Life Move On Myself Reason

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