Hans Kung and Benedict XVI Talk

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Is Fr. Hans Küng still a priest in good standing? Does he celebrate Mass publicly?

It’s interesting that through lots of bios and different things online I find no mention of him celebrating Mass at all. It just seems odd to me.
 
Zenit News had this tonight…

Hans Küng Has a Friendly Talk With Benedict XVI
Meeting Sidesteps Theologian’s Differences With Magisterium

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 26, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI had a private conversation with dissident Swiss theologian Hans Küng on subjects the latter has been researching in recent times.

The private meeting took place Saturday in the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo. Vatican spokesman Joaquín Navarro Valls revealed details of the conversation this afternoon.

“The meeting unfolded in a friendly atmosphere,” stated the Vatican spokesman’s communiqué.
“Both agreed that it made no sense, in the framework of the meeting, to enter into a dispute on the persistent doctrinal differences between Hans Küng and the magisterium of the Catholic Church.”

According to Navarro Valls, the meeting centered on two topics: the foundation of a “world ethic,” and the dialogue of the reason of the natural sciences with the reason of the Christian faith.

Küng, 77, was suspended in 1979 from teaching theology in Catholic faculties by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became its prefect.

Both theologians have known each other since 1957, when Joseph Ratzinger published a review of Küng’s doctoral thesis. As he explains in his autobiography, the future Benedict XVI did not share much of Küng’s thesis, but they enjoyed a good personal relationship
Read more…Zenit.org
 
Nor has it disturbed her admirers that she has been an avowed defender of Hans Kung and Charles E. Curran (both having been stripped of their status as theologians by the Holy See) as well as a fervent advocate of women priestesses and critic of the Church’s discipline of celibacy. Read more…
 
With the pontificate of John Paul II in its 22nd year, dissent never has been more essential. The 1979 censure of Kung, and with it the removal of his “mandate” to teach Catholic theology, involved complaints about several of his theological positions: among them, his reluctance to call Jesus “God,” his denial of the historicity of the virgin birth, and his rejection of papal infallibility. Several months after the CDF action, Pope John Paul told the German bishops what seems to me his own main complaint, that Kung “has substituted a laicized model of the church for the hierarchical model that flows from its essence and nature.” The hierarchical model of course, is supported by calling Jesus “God,” by the divine aura of a virgin birth, and by infallibility. Read more…
 
Would liked to have been a German-speaking fly on the wall for that meeting. Any pictures of Kung afterwards?
 
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For the moderators, I made sure I had ALL the sources (not just one) 😉
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The one to the original Zenit article would have done it, but who am I to complain?

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