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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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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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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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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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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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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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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