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Hans Küng (pronounced [ˈhans ˈkʏŋ]; born 19 March 1928) is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos). 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 Although Küng is not officially allowed to teach Catholic theology, his priestly faculties have not been revoked. 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.

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

Goal, Goals, Often Is, Purely, Religion, War

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

Decreed, Events, Guarantees That, Illness, Mean, Worsens

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

Believe, Neglect, Purpose, Warning

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.

Aspect, Model, People, Role Models, Roles

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

11Th, Agrees, Church, Dating, Divine, Law

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts, Love, Resort

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.

Bishops, Community, God, People, Thing, Understanding

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

God, Religious, Suffering, Protect, Protects, Midst

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.

Communism, Humanity, Phase, Two Worlds, War

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Hundreds, Planet, Poverty, Suffering, Unemployment

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

Favorites, Favors, Giving, Roman, Way

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.

Add, Catholicity, Meaningful, Space

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

Deficiency, Fact, Facts, Matter, Truth

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

Humans, Person, Persons, Protected, Unconditionally

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Conflicts, Hate, Leaders, Moving, Xenophobia

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.

Becomes, Essence, Ethics, Repeat, Rights, United

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.

Community, Historical, Society, Future, Changed

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.

Dimensions, Entry, Reality, Space, Time, Transition

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

Humanity, Order, Possesses, Resources, Spiritual

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.

Believe, Bigs, Eternal, Point, Views

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