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.
HANS KUNGHowever, 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.
HANS KUNGEveryone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
HANS KUNGA human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
HANS KUNGAnd 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.
HANS KUNGIt is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNGAlluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
HANS KUNGWe are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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 KUNGHundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
HANS KUNGReligion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
HANS KUNGBut 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.
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 KUNGThat is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
HANS KUNGGod’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
HANS KUNGWe should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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.
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