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

Religion, War, Power, Goals

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

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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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"Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language."

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

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

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

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

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"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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"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

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