There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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.
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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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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 like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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I’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.
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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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