Thread by @mfjlewis

This isn't a flippant question, by the way. I believe that both Küng and Burke, at their core, were ideologically motivated to reject traditional Catholic teachings on magisterial authority on doctrine and discipline. Both developed theories of authority to justify that dissent.

https://twitter.com/mfjlewis/status/1379562346339766280

Obviously, Küng's theories were much better developed and were written over a longer period of time, but Burke has developed his own sort of "Theology of Disobedience" in the last several years, most comprehensively articulated in a 2018 speech.

lifesitenews.com/news/full-text…

Burke:

"If, a member of the faithful believes in conscience that a particular exercise of the fullness of power is sinful and cannot bring his conscience to peace in the matter, 'the pope must, as a duty, be disobeyed'"

Kung:

"Unconditional obedience is owed to God alone: Although at your episcopal consecration you had to take an oath of unconditional obedience to the pope, you know that unconditional obedience can never be paid to any human authority; it is due to God alone."

Burke:

"I think here what’s entered in is a very political view of the papacy, where the pope is some kind of absolute monarch who can do whatever he wants."

nytimes.com/2019/11/09/opi…

Kung:

"With all due respect, I beg you to do your part – together with your fellow bishops as far as possible, but also alone if necessary – in apostolic 'fearlessness'”

Burke:

"The successor of St. Peter exercises an essential office of teaching and discipline, and Pope Francis, in many respects, has refused to exercise that office."

Kung:

“I believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ is stronger than the hierarchy.”

churchauthority.org/resources2/kun…

Burke:

"One must keep in mind the fact that the Apostle Paul publicly reproached the first Pope at Antioch in a matter of a lesser gravity, compared to the errors which in our days are spread in the life of the Church."

catholicculture.org/culture/librar…

Kung:

"Your model should be the apostle Paul, who dared to oppose Peter “to his face since he was manifestly in the wrong”! ( Galatians 2:11 ). Pressuring the Roman authorities in the spirit of Christian fraternity can be permissible and even necessary...

... when they fail to live up to the spirit of the Gospel and its mission."

See what I mean? Obviously very different ideologies, but both presume to take it upon themselves to oppose the pope and the Magisterium, justifying their disobedience as following God and the Gospel.