Tuesday, September 27, 2005
KUNG MEETS BENEDICT
It was the last paragraph in the article that I found most significant:
In recent years Küng has been involved in efforts to construct a "global ethic," based on what he sees as the shared principles of major faiths. The Vatican statement said that the Pope "recognized the merits of Professor Küng's efforts" in that area, and particularly his work "to inject new life into the dialogue between faith and science." Küng in turn praised the Pope's "efforts to continue the dialogue among religions and to meet with different social groups in the modern world."
Does this mean that they agreed?
The last sentence in another article on the topic makes me think that they did.
In the 2001 book, "The Modern Inquisition: Seven Prominent Catholics and their Struggles with the Vatican," Kueng wrote that he and Ratzinger were known as the "teenage theologians" at Vatican II but that they then took different paths.
He said the two met only once after he was stripped of his license to teach, in Bavaria in 1983 -- a "rather tense situation."
"Now I got the impression that he was the same person I knew from the happy Tuebingen years," he said
Hat tip to Novus Ordo Watch.
