Barcelona’s Archbishop Bans Hans Küng

Ricardo María Cardinal Carlés Gordó

Function: Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain

Title: Cardinal Priest of S. Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino

Birthdate: Sept 24, 1926	Country: Spain

Elevated: Nov 26, 1994	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Barcelona’s Archbishop Bans Hans Küng
Sept 12, 2004
Banned from giving a lecture in a Barcelona church, Professor Hans Küng has criticised “the limited outlook of senior officials”, and challenged the head of the Church in Barcelona to a public debate.

(The Tablet, 22 November 2003) The Swiss theologian was due to speak on 11 November in the fourteenth-century church of Santa Maria Del Pi. But the Archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Ricard María Carlés[strong], denied him permission to use any church in his archdiocese.

In a statement explaining the decision, Cardinal Carlés’s office noted that Küng’s canonical mission to teach as a Catholic theologian had been withdrawn by the Vatican. Küng “has marked the 25 years of the papacy of John Paul II by publishing an article on the person of the Holy Father that is disrespectful and lacking in objectivity”, the statement said.

The Swiss theologian was in Spain to promote his autobiography, reports Julius Purcell from Barcelona. Cardinal Carlés had asked the the co-organisers of the speaking event – Unesco and the World Parliament of Religions – to ensure that Küng did not make his speech in a church. They had “immediately complied” with the cardinal’s request and relocated the meeting to Barcelona University, the statement added.

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