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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

Hans Kung

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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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 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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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 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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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