The Gospel has to be the norm.
HANS KUNGA human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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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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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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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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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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