Hans Küng,

the Swiss Catholic theologian very critical of the Church, died this Tuesday in

Tübingen (Germany)

at the age of 93, announced the

Planetary Ethics Foundation

that he had founded.

"With Hans Küng, we lose the charismatic and impressive creator of the Foundation and a master of visionary thought for a more just and peaceful world," he said in a statement.

Küng, born March 19, 1928 in

Switzerland,

was Emeritus Professor of

Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tübingen (southwest).

In 2013, he retired from public life for health reasons.

Its foundation did not specify the cause of death of this promoter of dialogue between religions and author of the work "World Ethics in Latin America."

The Vatican banned Hans Küng,

one of the youngest participants in the

Second Vatican Council, from

teaching Catholic theology after a controversy over the pope's "infallibility" dogma.

In 1954 he was ordained a priest and, in 1962, Pope

John XXIII

elected him as the official counselor of the Second Vatican Council.

It was in 1979 that the Holy See withdrew Küng's license to teach Catholic theology for his book

Infallible?

A question,

where he questions the dogma of infallibility in the Church and also the figure of Pope

John Paul II.

More recently, in 2010, the theologian had

demanded that Pope Benedict XVI sing his 'mea culpa'

for how cases of pedophilia had been handled for decades.

Hans Küng also charged against the attitude of the German episcopate, shaken by a series of revelations about sexual abuse committed in the past by members of the clergy.

The Swiss theologian celebrated in 2013 the enthronement of the Argentine Pope

Francis

as "the best possible choice (...), since he

is an open-minded Latin American."

In 2016, Hans Küng reiterated his request to Pope Francis to review papal infallibility.

In an article, published by various newspapers in different countries, the theologian called for the Bishop of Rome to analyze this dogma of faith that, in his opinion, "has tacitly blocked all reforms since Vatican II. that would have required revising previous dogmatic positions ".

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