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The Result of the Papal Election
by
Hans Küng
by
Hans Küng
The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope comes as an enormous disappointment for all those who hoped for a reformist and pastoral Pope.
But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the role of the Papacy in the Catholic Church today is so challenging that it can change anyone. Someone who enters the conclave a progressive cardinal can emerge as a conservative (such as Montini Pope Paul VI), and someone who enters the conclave a conservative cardinal can, indeed, emerge as a progressive (Roncalli Pope John XXIII).
HANS KUNG -- REACTION TO THE ELECTION OF RATZINGER TO THE PAPACY (BENEDICT XVI) LOGOS 4.1 WINTER 2005