A remarkable article in the Irish Times (“Küng invokes spirit of Second Vatican Council he hardly saw”) from one who was there, Bishop Michael Smith (Bishop of Meath). According to the paper, Bishop Meath attended all 168 days of the Second Vatican Council for which he and 11 other young priests prepared the official record. In contrast, by Bishop Smith’s account, it seems that Dr Küng actually appears to have declined involvement in the event about which he so freely lectures everyone else. There are all sorts of narratives about the Second Vatican Council, but it is always interesting to hear the story from “someone who was there”.
Your Host:
- David Schütz Melbourne, Australia Peccator apud peccatores, et insanus apud insanos
Email
Other Stuff
- First time Commentators click here before posting!
- Other Stuff
- Catholic priesthood crisis
- Catholic Theological College Bible Lands Study Tour 2012
- Extracts from the Manual on Indulgences (2006)
- MacKillop-Woods Way Pilgrimage 2016-2021
- My Anima Education course notes
- My Articles
- “How to live best alongside Muslims in Australia”
- “The Very Heart of the Gospel” – Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
- Council of Christians and Jews: “Same-Sex Marriage” Panel – Presentation by David Schütz
- Ecumenism, Interfaith Dialogue and the New Evangelisation
- Evangelisation and Proselytisation
- Passover meets Easter
- Response to a further enquiry on “How Jesus the Faithful Jew became the Christ of Christian Faith”
- Response to Paul Forgasz on “How Jesus the Faithful Jew became the Christ of Christian Faith”
- The Christian Hope and Christian Dialogue with Jews (2013)
- The New Evangelisation – Presentation to the National Conference of the Catholic Women’s League of Australia
- The Schütz Model for a Elective Australian Constitutional Monarchy
- What is the Gospel? Some analytic thoughts
- My Aussie Camino – The Inaugural MacKillop-Woods Way Pilgrimage (April 2014)
- My Essays On Liturgical Music and Song
- My Interviews
- My Reviews
- Prayers for the Burial of a Pet
- The Aussie Camino
- To the Holy Door: A Pilgrimage of Mercy (December 13)
- Who is Schütz?
Disclaimer
All opinions on this page expressed by the blog owner are those of the blog owner alone, and are in no way to be taken as the opinions of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne or its agencies.
Any opinion on this page expressed by a visiting commentator is the opinion of that commentator alone and is in no way to be taken as the opinion of the blog owner.
I hope that is clear enough for everyone?
About This Blog
Sentire Cum Ecclesia began years ago back when blogs were the latest thing. They are a bit passe now, and I spend most of my time on twitter (@scecclesia) but from time to time, I do add new things on this ‘ere website. Mostly I use it as a place for journaling about my Pilgrimage experiences.
The motto of the blog is:
“Maior autem his est spes”Subscribe to Email Updates
Archives
less qualified than most! LOL!
Kung has never been anything other than a self-serving publicity seeker.
King should have gone over to my mob the proddies if he was honest enough about his theological position. I know that his books in the late 1960s’ were recommended reading at the Churches of Christ theol college in QLD ,when my brother was there ,and that some of Kung’s comments raised my father ‘s eyebrows with the comment” I wonder if his church tolerates that view “?
Poor Herr Doktor Hans Küng. He and good Father Godfrey Diekmann never quite had their hopes realized.
It’s long past time for Küng to move on.
This is pretty unedifying stuff, David. What on earth does ‘less qualified than most’ mean?
I have no problem with people having a go at Kung for what he says and writes, but this kind of nonsense has more in common with pettyness and jealousy than substantive criticism.
I happened to read over the obituaries to Ralph McInerny in First Things today, and saw in the comments, a quote from McInerny someone liked :
“The letter of Vatican II is one thing, the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” is not the Holy Spirit.”
Just throwin it out there.