Hans Küng to Lucia Annunziata during the interview of Sunday 15th February on Rai3, freely and synthetically recorded by the Carthusian.
L.A.: Why do the followers of Lefebvre deny?
H.K.: Because they reject all the modernity, clinging to the Middle Age, that is anti-Semitic. A reconciliation with them would mean a regression to the Middle Age.
L.A.: Ratzinger has recently lost a million pilgrims.
H.K.: Even if they were more, they would be pilgrims who do not put in practice the ethical word of the pope.
L.A.: You have been attendista e aperturista with Ratzinger.
H.K.: He welcomed me at Castel Gandolfo. I hoped other courageous acts would follow this first one. But there only was restoration.
L.A.: You talk about an isolated Ratzinger.
H.K.: Self-isolated and deliberately surrounded by yes-men. The analogy with the Kremlin is obvious: center of power, doctrinal plant, a non-relation with the real and changing world.
Above all Ratzinger is specular to George W. Bush instead of Obama. He is not the pope of hope.
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