Petulant Hans Kung to skip Vatican II celebration

 Hans Kung - prefers to mourn

Kung waited until the last second to notify his hosts he wouldn't be coming, which is not the behavior of a gentleman.  Well, as Colonel Harrington observed in The Lady Eve,  "a mug is a mug in everything."

If a man such as Kung considers the fiftieth anniversary of the Council an occasion better suited to mourning than celebration, perhaps the Church has come through the post-Council crisis in better shape than some of us fear.

Hans Kung: Touchstone of Foolishness

                                  The archetype of post-Vatican II theologian, right down to the tan (note the autograph!)

In interview with fawning Der Spiegel, Kung compares Benedict to Putin; calls for new Luther. 

I especially enjoyed this specimen of Kungian logic:

Kung writes open letter to bishops criticizing pope and "Roman system."
All 5,000 bishops ignore Kung's letter.   
Ergo, bishops lack courage.

The translated interview appeared in Commonweal, naturally.