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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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