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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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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Theologian

Born: March 19th, 1928

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