I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNGI like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNGThe Gospel has to be the norm.
HANS KUNGI’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.
HANS KUNGAll historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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.
HANS KUNGTime and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
HANS KUNGFor 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 KUNGAfter 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.
HANS KUNGA Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
HANS KUNGHowever, 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.
HANS KUNGBut 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.
HANS KUNGAt 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.
HANS KUNGEveryone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
HANS KUNGThat is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
HANS KUNGA human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
HANS KUNGWe are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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