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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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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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Destruction Employment Family Human Myself Planet
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Conscious Economics Problem Religious Solve
God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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Deep God Love Protection Suffering
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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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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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 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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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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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