Book Banning

 

Simple solution instead of banning books.  Besides, ban a book, and it suddenly becomes a best seller.  

Catholic leadership over the centuries has banned books.  I try to find them.  Of what was the Church afraid?  Prominent theologians have been stripped of their teaching credentials.  One excellent example is Hans Kung.  I enjoy his books.  He died in April 2021.

Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic. Küng was ordained a priest in 1954, joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1960, and served as a theological adviser during the Second Vatican Council.  Then he fell on hard times in part because he refused to believe that popes were infallible. He paid a great price for his belief.  

Some of his works I've read were: "Christianity - Essence, History, and Future" (1994); "The Beginning of All Things - Science and Religion" (2007); and Credo - The Apostles' Creed Explained for Today" (1992).   I'm sure glad those books were not banned.  Then again, if banned, I would have rushed to read them.  Ignorance is not bliss.  

Deacon David Pierce