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.
HANS KUNGAnd 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.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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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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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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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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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