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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

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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
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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Conflict Hate Inspirational Leadership Time
There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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Earth Peace Religion World
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Aware Evil Goodness Man Religious Time Tradition Various Woman
I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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Complete Death Dimension Life Myself Reality Reason
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
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
In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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Dignity Myself Person Religious Worst
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
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
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Favor Myself Roman Way
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Catholic Myself Tradition
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

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