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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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