Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
HANS KUNGHumanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
HANS KUNGThat is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
HANS KUNGI 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.
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.
HANS KUNGI’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.
HANS KUNGAfter 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.
HANS KUNGIf 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.
HANS KUNGA human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
HANS KUNGWe should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
HANS KUNGTime and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
HANS KUNGGod’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
HANS KUNGIn 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.
HANS KUNGIt is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNGWe are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
HANS KUNGReligion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
HANS KUNGThe Gospel has to be the norm.
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