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.
HANS KUNGI 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.
HANS KUNGHumanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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 KUNGAs a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
HANS KUNGReligion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
HANS KUNGAll historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
HANS KUNGEveryone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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 KUNGThat is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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 KUNGA Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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 KUNGA human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
HANS KUNGIt is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNGIn the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
HANS KUNGFor 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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