I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNGThere 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 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 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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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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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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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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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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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