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.
From Hans Kung
The Gospel has to be the norm.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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.
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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