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 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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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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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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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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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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In 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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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