CANADA
CBC
[with audio]
Hans Küng in conversation with Michael Enright.
A hundred and fifteen men have descended on Rome to choose a new pope. For the Catholic Church’s adversaries, as well as its anxious or disgruntled followers, there is hope for reform and renewal in the Church. Or maybe at the end of this month’s conclave, there will just be a new pope.
Dr. Hans Küng has long argued that profound reform is essential to the Church’s survival, and his critiques of the Church and the papacy carry more weight than most.
Dr. Küng is the last surviving theological advisor to the Second Vatican Council of 50 years ago. He is still officially “a Catholic priest in good standing,” but the Vatican stripped him of his authority to teach Catholic theology, following his critique of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility in the 1970s.
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