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.
Popeâs Planned Visit to Iraq, Amid Pandemic, Raises Questions of Timing
Pope Francis has said he is determined to visit the war-torn country. But some worry that the visit will become a superspreader event in a land where the virus still rages.
A banner depicting Pope Francis in Qaraqosh, a town of Syriac Catholics, in Iraq last week.Credit.Zaid Al-Obeidi/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
has said that he has canceled trips during the pandemic because âin conscience I cannot provoke gatherings,â but that the only thing that would stop him from becoming the first pope to visit war-scarred Iraq would be a new surge in infections.
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