God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
HANS KUNGWe should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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