{"id":42474,"date":"2013-03-01T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=42474"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:31:37","slug":"hans-kung-seems-to-be-under-the-impression-that-jesus-not-benedict-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/03\/hans-kung-seems-to-be-under-the-impression-that-jesus-not-benedict-resigned.html","title":{"rendered":"Hans Kung Seems to Be Under the Impression That Jesus, Not Benedict, Resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s the thing: it is Jesus, not Benedict, and not even the toweringly humble Hans Kung (author of the upcoming book \u201cCan the Church Still Be Saved?\u201d) who is the savior of the Church. So much as I am sure God appreciates old Hans\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/28\/opinion\/a-vatican-spring.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">suggestions on how to save the Church<\/a>, it turns out the Church already has a savior. I am reasonably confident that he already heard Hans\u2019 reiterations of the same Woodstock Generation advice the other 10 zillion times he gave it.<\/p>\n<p>Since you\u2019ve heard it all before, I will give the Cliff Notes version helpfully supplied by a reader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He lists the good and bad things that Benedict did.\u00a0 The bad:\u00a0 almost everything.\u00a0 The good:\u00a0 \u201cIn 2005, in one of Benedict\u2019s few bold actions, he held an amicable four-hour conversation with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Pope\u2019s greatest action was to have a conversation with Me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s always so thoughtful of the <em>NY Times<\/em> to supply the Church with helpful advice on how to be saved. One of these days, just for a changeup, they should consider \u201cbelieve in Jesus Christ\u201d as one possible way to do that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing: it is Jesus, not Benedict, and not even the toweringly humble Hans Kung (author of the upcoming book \u201cCan the Church Still Be Saved?\u201d) who is the savior of the Church. 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