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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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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Agree Command Date Divine Rule
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Abandonment Religious Truth
God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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Deep God Love Protection Suffering
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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Essence Myself Nation Religion Right
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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Complete Death Dimension Life Myself Reality Reason
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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Destruction Employment Family Human Myself Planet
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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Dignity Myself Person Religious Worst
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Favor Myself Roman Way
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
All 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.
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Achievement Consciousness Distance Earth Experience Follow History
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Catholic Myself Tradition
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Conflict Hate Inspirational Leadership Time
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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Forever Hell Life Myself Neglect Person Purpose Warning
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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Community God People Servant Understand
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Age Day Invention Thinking
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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End Life Move On Myself Reason

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