For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
HANS KUNGIf 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.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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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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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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