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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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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.
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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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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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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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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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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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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