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Hans Küng Quotes

1928–2021 Switzerland

Hans Küng (19 March 1928 – 6 April 2021) was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author. After he rejected the doctrine of papal infallibility, the Vatican rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology.

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The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

Joseph Ratzinger has stood still because as a Bavarian Catholic in the Hellenistic tradition, interpreted in Roman terms, he wanted to stand still. To this degree he represented and represents a different basic model of theology and church, as different from mine as in astronomy Ptolemy's geocentric picture of the world is different from Copernicus' heliocentric picture.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Küng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.