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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.

Hans Kung

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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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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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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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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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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 peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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