From Saturday's Guardian to yesterday's Sunday, dear, dotty old Hans Küng is everywhere for the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II, on which be here for the anniversary itself on Thursday.
Earlier this year, in an
"argument" decidedly reminiscent of the Lefebvrist one about the
unchangeable universality of the frequently changed and never-universal
Tridentine Missal, Küngclaimed that an Apostolic Constitution of Paul VI
invalidated any subsequent ordinations to the Episcopate according to the
previous Roman Rite, such as those by Archbishop Lefebvre. (I myself await the
judgement of the Holy Father as to whether it is possible to have a Catholic
intention to confer the Episcopate contrary to the express will of the Roman
Pontiff, as such. So there is a question of validity. Just not the one posed by
Küng.)
But he went further: if the Pope permitted the reconciliation as bishops of those thus invalidly ordained, then he would have committed a schismatic act, and thus forfeited his position. Küng is not only a sort of Lefebvrist; he is a full-blown sedevacantist. The Tablet, in which he published this position, is now a sedevacantist publication which therefore ought no longer to be distributed on church premises.
Ha, Ha, Ha, and all that. But Küng is a nasty piece of work. His disparagement of Blessed John Paul the Great's Polishness made and make them the authentic voice of the age-old Teutonic racism against the Slavs. He only gets away with it because he is Swiss. As a foreign preacher of hate, he ought not to be permitted to enter the United Kingdom. Blessed John Paul is a kind of litmus test, which Lefebvrists and all points right fail along with liberals and those, such as Küng, who have, in the words of the dissident American nuns, "moved beyond Jesus".
But he went further: if the Pope permitted the reconciliation as bishops of those thus invalidly ordained, then he would have committed a schismatic act, and thus forfeited his position. Küng is not only a sort of Lefebvrist; he is a full-blown sedevacantist. The Tablet, in which he published this position, is now a sedevacantist publication which therefore ought no longer to be distributed on church premises.
Ha, Ha, Ha, and all that. But Küng is a nasty piece of work. His disparagement of Blessed John Paul the Great's Polishness made and make them the authentic voice of the age-old Teutonic racism against the Slavs. He only gets away with it because he is Swiss. As a foreign preacher of hate, he ought not to be permitted to enter the United Kingdom. Blessed John Paul is a kind of litmus test, which Lefebvrists and all points right fail along with liberals and those, such as Küng, who have, in the words of the dissident American nuns, "moved beyond Jesus".
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