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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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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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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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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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