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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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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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human Infinite Protection
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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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 peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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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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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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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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