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

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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
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human Infinite Protection
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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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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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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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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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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