There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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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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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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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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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 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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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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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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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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