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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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For 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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Force Greatness Moral People Positive Suffering
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human Infinite Protection
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Conscious Economics Problem Religious Solve
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Abandonment Religious Truth
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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Aware Evil Goodness Man Religious Time Tradition Various Woman
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
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
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
It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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Change Unknown
The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Religious Scripture Standard
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Catholic Myself Tradition
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Fact Religion Truth Yourself
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
But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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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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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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