Occupation: Priest Birth: March 19, 1928
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families..
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 ….
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself..
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..
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected..
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions..
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order..
In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by wit….
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command..
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can w….
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluou….
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 ….
Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell..
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul..