| Author Quoted | Hans Küng |
| Title Quoted | Council, Reform and Reunion |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/03/09 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1961 |
| Quotation | Reading Hans Küng on The Council, Reform and Reunion [New York, 1961]. If I wanted to start copying bits of it I would end by copying page after page, because I am so glad these things are at last said. Yet they are after all only obvious-even trite. That this Church is stuffy, dusty, narrow, that the hierarchy has been immobile, stupid, passive, repressive, etc. etc. The closed mind of the Churchman today! What I fear is that this will only engender a lot of intense activity and legislation, decrees, "reforms" etc. which will authoritatively impose a lot of new obligations and change all the burdens from one shoulder to the other. Without freeing the heart to receive the H[oly] Spirit in abundance. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 209 |
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