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Hans Kung [1928-0] Swiss

Rank: 102
Theologian, Priest

Hans Küng is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, 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 Although Küng is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, his priestly faculties have not been revoked.

Age, History, Religion, 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.		101
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.	History, War	102
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.		103
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.		104
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.	Age, Religion	105
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.		106
The Gospel has to be the norm.		107
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.		108
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.		109
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.		110
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.		111
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.		112
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.		113
I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.		114
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.		115
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.		116
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.		117
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.		118
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.		119
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.		120
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.		121
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.		122
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.		123

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