| Author Quoted | Hans Küng |
| Title Quoted | Council, Reform and Reunion |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/03/00 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1961 |
| Quotation | Then the Hans Küng book, The Council, Reform and Reunion. This too is splendid. One's reaction is more hopeful and more positive. But the sense of urgency remains the same. This Council has got to fulfill great hopes or be a disaster. It is absolutely no use reaffirming the disciplinary and juridical positions that have been affirmed one way or another for a thousand years. This is not reform, not renewal. That is what comes out of those two books, with great force. This is not the world of Gregory VII or Innocent III or Pius V, or even Pius X. To be a perfect Christian, even a saint according to their pattern, is no longer enough. On the contrary, it is apt to be terribly dangerous, even fatal. |
| Quotation Source | Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1994, p. 45 |
| Letter to | Frank J. Sheed |
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