"The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_K%C3%BCng
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Hans Küng
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Hans Küng →
Related Quotes
"The same church must, in my opinion, also respect that the one whose name is absent from the same declaration out of …"
"If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you ha…"
"Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command."
"There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religion…"
"Joseph Ratzinger has stood still because as a Bavarian Catholic in the Hellenistic tradition, interpreted in Roman te…"
""Wer viel weiß, weiß auch, was er nicht weiß"
"Religion kann die Evolution als Schöpfung interpretieren. Naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis kann Schöpfung als evolut…"
"Kein menschliches Zusammenleben ohne ein Weltethos der Nationen; kein Frieden unter den Nationen ohne Frieden unter d…"
"Immer deutlicher wurde mir in den letzten Jahren, daß die eine Welt, in der wir leben, nur dann eine Chance zum Überl…"
"Man is the crowning of history and the realization of poetry, the free and living bond which unites all nature to tha…"