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.
HANS KUNGIn the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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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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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
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