Hopeful realist Hans Kung points pathway to global ethic.(Profile)(Biography)

National Catholic Reporter | September 3, 2004| | Copyright

Hans Kung will mark 50 years as a priest Oct. 10. Although he has been off the church's official radar for a quarter century--since being stripped of his canonical license to operate as a Catholic theologian he has never abandoned his quest to reform the Roman Catholic church.

These days he is devoting much of his effort to global ethics and world peace and to preparing the second volume of his memoirs, My Struggle for Freedom (NCR, Sept. 12, 2003). Almost two-thirds of the first volume deals with Kung's reform agenda.

While the Swiss priest and scholar may ...

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