58 Quotes by Hans Küng

But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the papacy in the Catholic Church today is such a challenge that it can change anyone.

Up to now, the worst fears have not been realized. He has found another style.

We are certainly at an impasse, because on the grassroots level, we have a lot of ecumenical understanding, encounter, cooperation, even liturgy.

There's no use casting doubt on (scientific) results with some little problems, as the intelligent-design people or the creationists do. What's there is there. A theologian should not cast doubt on a scientific consensus, but see how he can deal with it.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

In the question of homosexuality, the Vatican was rather permissive or lenient, with regard to all these crimes of sexual abuse.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.