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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

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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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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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If 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.
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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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