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Hans Kung reflects on an embattled life: memoirs describe a much criticized but always loyal Catholic.(My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs)(Book Review)
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September 12, 2003|
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MY STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM: MEMOIRS By Hans Kung Erdmans, 544 pages, $32
Carmelite Fr. Roland Murphy (God be good to him!) and I were standing in line to board the bus that would take the editors of the journal Concilium from Munich to Chemsee for our annual dinner. A gnome-like French theologian turned to us and, eyes blinking through thick spectacles, murmured, "Le Pere Kung, c'est tres pietist, non?" At our last session that day Fr. Hans Kung had delivered a fervent statement that Catholics ought to go Mass every Sunday, not to escape sin, but because it was a sign ...
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