Quickly after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a pacesetter in the marketing campaign towards Dr. Küng, grew to become Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, he invited Dr. Küng to his summer season residence in Castel Gandolfo, outdoors Rome. Pope John Paul II had denied greater than a dozen of Dr. Küng’s requests for a gathering.
Dr. Küng and Cardinal Ratzinger had grow to be buddies when Dr. Küng recruited Cardinal Ratzinger to be a professor at the College of Tübingen in 1965. They cut up over the scholar revolts of 1968, which had horrified Cardinal Ratzinger. They continued to diverge, and Dr. Küng got here to discuss with the cardinal, who was head of the Vatican workplace liable for defending church orthodoxy, as “the Grand Inquisitor” or “head of the Okay.G.B.”
Nonetheless, after Cardinal Ratzinger grew to become pope, the two loved an extended dinner at the pope’s summer season residence after agreeing to not disagree. Pope Benedict applauded Dr. Küng’s efforts to revive the dialogue between religion and the pure sciences. Dr. Küng praised the pope for reaching out to different religions.
However after Benedict resigned the papacy in 2013, Dr. Küng urged that the pope had been out of step with “modernity” and that the church was in want of extra progressive management.
“On this dramatic state of affairs the church wants a pope who’s not dwelling intellectually in the Center Ages, who doesn’t champion any variety of medieval theology, liturgy or church structure,” he wrote, “a pope who stands up for the freedom of the church in the world not simply by giving sermons however by combating with phrases and deeds for freedom and human rights inside the church, for theologians, for girls, for all Catholics who need to converse the reality brazenly. ”
Dr. Küng’s picture was distinctly nonclerical. Athletic and good-looking, he wore crisp enterprise fits, not a priest’s collar, and drove a sports activities automobile. On his journeys to the United States, he typically appeared on tv speak exhibits, and his youthful model drew comparisons to President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Küng most popular to be referred to as “professor” or “physician” or “simply plain Hans Küng,” explaining that the title “Father” was not historically utilized in German-speaking lands.
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