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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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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 are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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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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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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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