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Letter #13, 2021, Tues., April 6: Hans Küng Letter #13, 2021, Tues., April 6: Hans Küng     I write today with the sad news of the death at the age of 93 of one of the more important and controversial Catholic theologians of our time, Hans Küng.     I met Küng, who was Swiss, just briefly, in the 1970s, when I was a college student at Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he was invited by the Harvard Divinity School to give a lecture there.     I was struck then by Küng’s confident presence and manner. He presented his rather progressive, modernist views in a self-assured way, seemingly taking for granted that he would receive enthusiastic support for his positions from the divinity students of that place and time, most of them non-Catholics. And he did receive that enthusiastic support. I was troubled by, and opposed to, what I took to be his too optimistic eagerness to “update” the Catholic faith in keeping with the “right-thinking” Western int

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