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  • Küng, original celebrity theologian and liberal muse, dead at 93

    Küng, original celebrity theologian and liberal muse, dead at 93

    • Apr 7, 2021

    With the death on Tuesday of the 93-year-old Father Hans Küng, liberal post-Vatican II Catholicism has lost its muse, and the entire Church has lost someone who never failed to make things more interesting.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Celebrating the anonymous change-makers in the Church

    Celebrating the anonymous change-makers in the Church

    • Aug 30, 2020

    There’s something fitting about it having been a Catholic priest who coined the famous phrase about being able to accomplish great things as long as you don’t want the credit, because of all environments on earth where that’s true, the Vatican merits a special pride of place.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Retired pope visits former home, parents’ grave in Germany

    Retired pope visits former home, parents’ grave in Germany

    • Jun 21, 2020

    Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI visited his former home near Regensburg, Germany, on Saturday, greeted old neighbors and prayed at his parents’ grave as part of a trip to his former haunts to be with his seriously ill 96-year-old brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger.

    By David McHugh
  • German Catholics praise Father Johann Metz, theologian, dead at 91

    German Catholics praise Father Johann Metz, theologian, dead at 91

    • Dec 7, 2019

    German-speaking Catholics paid tribute to Father Johann Baptist Metz, the veteran theologian who died Dec. 2 in Munster, Germany, at age 91.

    By Jonathan Luxmoore
  • Catholic theology loses a giant with a sense of humor in Metz

    Catholic theology loses a giant with a sense of humor in Metz

    • Dec 5, 2019

    Father Joann Baptist Metz, who died Monday at 91, had a little bit of the typical arrogance of the German Doktorvater, but it was always leavened by a capacity to laugh at himself, his colleagues, and the general situation in which he and the Church found themselves.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • On pope’s Asia swing, doctrinal tension is the dog that’s not barking

    On pope’s Asia swing, doctrinal tension is the dog that’s not barking

    • Nov 20, 2019

    As Pope Francis opens his third trip to Asia today, visiting Thailand and Japan, there’s a pretty big doctrinal dog that hasn’t uttered a peep – debates over the theology of religious pluralism.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Pope vows accountability for sex abuse cover-ups but offers no new specifics

    Pope vows accountability for sex abuse cover-ups but offers no new specifics

    • Aug 20, 2018

    In a letter addressed to the People of God, Pope Francis referred to the sexual abuse crisis that has devastated the Catholic Church, saying that to say “no” to abuse is to say an emphatic “no” to all forms of clericalism.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • As Chile bishops arrive in Rome, recalling 48 hours that shook the Church

    As Chile bishops arrive in Rome, recalling 48 hours that shook the Church

    • May 13, 2018

    As Chile’s bishops arrive in Rome for meetings with Pope Francis on their country’s clerical sexual abuse crisis, it’s worth remembering when America’s bishops did the same in 2002.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
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