"Theologian" Hans Kung Bashes Pope Benedict and George Bush All at One Time

This i incredible editorial was in La Stampa, an major Italian daily based on Torino (Turin). I must say after reading this I wonder why in the Silly Season after Vatican II so much attention and influence was given this guy. Perhaps his age and his anger that the Post Vatican II Church was not made in his image is coming through.

Father Z has translated the piece and very well rips it apart at his post LA STAMPA: Hans KÜNG on Pres. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI .

It is incredible how one person can get so much wrong in one piece.

Expect more of this. Certain forces are upset that the Vatican and Pope Benedict are and were friendly with the Bush Administration. As reported by the London Times last week:

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The Pope has rejected an invitation to address the European Parliament, amid Vatican alarm at what is seen as a drift towards militant secularism. A letter from the Vatican said that he was declining the request to speak to MEPs owing to other commitments and his age, The Times has learnt. The rejection came soon after the Pope agreed to spend his 81st birthday visiting President Bush and as his tour of Australia was ending..

. *** The Vatican has favoured the White House as a reward for Mr Bush’s acclamation of faith in God and help for antiabortion causes. *** The breakdown in confidence between the Pope and the European Parliament is a sensitive area and observers close to the dispute are unwilling to be identified publicly. One spoke of the church hierarchy’s “great disillusionment” with the European project. Its founding fathers, Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman, were deeply Catholic. However, a well-informed observer said that the EU “has become more and more secularist”. ***

... Mr Bush is regarded by the Vatican as far more sympathetic to its priorities than Europe. When he withdrew $34 million from the UN family planning programme in 2002, claiming that some money went to abortions, the European Union made up the shortfall.
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and are fearful that like in 2004 the Vatican will let the word out that its sees an potential Obama Democrat White House as a disaster