Hans Kung Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Hans Kung

  People, Community, Understanding

• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  Hans Kung

  Views, Years, Community

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  Hans Kung

  Law, Dating, Church

  Newsweek Interview, July 8, 1991.

• A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

  Hans Kung

  Church, Abandon

  Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

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