Category - Hans Kung

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Hans Kung

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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Hans Kung

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.

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

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

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

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

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