Hans Küng, pictured in a 1980 photo. (CNS photo/Hans Knapp, KNA); right: St. John Paul II in 1978 in Rome, days after his election. (CNS photo/Mal Langsdon, Reuters)
As a non-theologian, I do not feel competent to respond to the controversial theological views of the recently deceased Swiss-German dissident theologian Hans Küng, such as his rejection of the dogma of papal infallibility. But as a historian who specializes in the history of East-Central European, particularly Polish history, I am quite disgusted by Küng’s blatant lies about Polish history, which he used to attack St. John Paul II.