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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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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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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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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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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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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