| Author Quoted | Hans Küng |
| Title Quoted | Council, Reform and Reunion |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/06/30 |
| Imprint | New York : [s.n.]. 1961 |
| Quotation | Bob Giroux sent M. Serafian's The Pilgrim. I have read about twenty-five pages of it and find it great. So much finer than X. Rynne's gossip column. The most serious book about the Council I have read since Küng's book (the one before the Council [The Council, Reform and Reunion, 1961]; I have not read any others). Simply clarifies and confirms what is already obvious: the ghastly problem that all through the Church the "will of God" can and does resolve itself into "the will of an Italian Undersecretary in the Holy Offic" and that in fact the conservative Vatican bureaucrats think they have the right to contradict the Pope himself-they are the ones who are infallible. |
| Journal | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 122 |
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