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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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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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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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