Everyone 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.
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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.
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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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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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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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All 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.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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