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They may sound like excerpts from a Reformation tract, but in fact they are the views of Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng of Germany's Tübingen University. Küng has long been the Vatican's most persistent and radical antagonist within the church. Four years ago he was summoned to Rome for a scrutiny of his theology. (He declined, partly because Rome would not give him a prior list of its complaints...
...years ago Kung's blunt denial of papal infallibility in his book Infallible? An Inquiry caused him to be assailed by Catholic officialdom (TIME, April 5, 1971). Even his longtime mentor, Progressive Jesuit Karl Rahner, regretfully concluded that Küng must henceforth be dealt with as if he were a liberal Protestant. Now he has published another book, Why Priests? (Doubleday; $5.95), from which the above quotations are drawn. It will confirm Kung's Protestant proclivities in the minds of many...
While some Catholic progressives greeted the new rules as a step in the right direction, however small, outspoken Theologian Hans Kung (Infallible?, Why Priests?) of Germany's Tubingen University was less sanguine. Küng called the regulations "poorly applied cosmetics . . . eyewash for the growing choir of criticism from both clergy and laity." A case in point for Küng's skepticism is one of the Pope's recent episcopal choices, Bishop Johannes Gijsen of the Dutch diocese of Roermond, who was selected over the nominees of the diocesan chapter. Three days after the Vatican announced...
...Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans Küng, refusing to be read out of the church and telling the Pope that infallibility is a wrong idea...
Then, finally, on the sixth day - Sat urday morning - a few of them start to break down. Two of the girls begin weep ng, confessing they have no real knowledge of their own identity. A boy blurts out an intense analysis of his own re lationship with his parents that leaves him sobbing "I've never . . . never been able to love anybody before...