David Meyer is a French and Israeli rabbi and is currently a professor of classical rabbinic literature and contemporary Jewish thought at the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies of the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome. He has published numerous books in French and English on rabbinic and interreligious topics.
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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.