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...Hans Kung, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent liberal theologian banned by the Vatican a year ago from teaching in Catholic institutions, will speak at Memorial Church next Wednesday...
According to the Vatican, Kung's views on the Church's leadership and structure, especially the concept of papal infallibility, do not conform to those of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Kung maintains that the whole Catholic Church can be considered unerring, but that an individual pope's infallibility is out of line with the history of the church," Francine Carpman, a professor at the Weston School of Theology, said yesterday. She added that "because Kung's works are polemical he has become on of today's most controversial theologians...
...swift. China, which invaded Viet Nam early last year "to teach Hanoi a lesson," warned of the "grave danger" of such military adventures. "In dealing with wolves, it will have merely limited effect to raise a hue and cry," editorialized Hong Kong's pro-Communist daily Ta Kung Pao. "Only with the use of a big stick or of guns can the wolves be driven away or beaten to death...
Sources at the Divinity School report that retiring Rep. Robert F. Drinan may pick up one of the honoraries. German sources say theologian Hans Kung is another possibility...