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Hans Küng
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“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsweek interview (8 July 1991)
“Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsweek interview (8 July 1991)
“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.”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University (31 March 2005)
“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.”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disputed Truth: Memoirs Volume 2 (2008), p. 329
“The same church must, in my opinion, also respect that the one whose name is absent from the same declaration out of embarrassment, although he and he alone led Muslims to pray to this one God, so that once again through him, Muhammad, the prophet, this God "has spoken to mankind".”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?”
Hans Küng (1928–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009)