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

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• Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

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• I remember the Curia said, that’s up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

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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 s*xual impulses with minors.

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• It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

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• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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• That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

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• That means that every human being – without distinction of s*x, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

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• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

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• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

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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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• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

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• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

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• A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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• The Gospel has to be the norm.

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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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Hans Kung (24)

Birth:	19th March, 1928
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Author, Priest, Professor, Theologian

About

Hans Kung was born in Sursee, Switzerland. He is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, professor and author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic. He is notable for his rejection of the doctrine of papal infallibility. Although he is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, his priestly faculties have not been revoked. In 1979, he had to leave the Catholic faculty, but remained at the University of Tübingen as a professor of ecumenical theology, serving as an emeritus professor since 1996. He has written several books include: On Being a Christian, The Catholic Church, Disputed Truth, Christianity, Great Christian thinkers, Theology for the Third Millennium, Freud and the problem of God, Islam: Past, Present and Future, and What I Believe.

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