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.
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.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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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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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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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