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In lives of Father Küng, Cardinal Cassidy, lessons for church reform, renewal

One was a high-profile theologian from Switzerland, a towering figure of 20th-century Christianity whose writings brought him a global following, but who could be spiky and fiercely critical of Rome. The other was a mild-mannered, affable Australian, a skilled Vatican diplomat who largely worked behind the scenes as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Roman Curia.
Swiss-born Father Hans Küng, a prominent and sometimes controversial theologian who taught in Germany, died April 6, 2021, at age 93. Father Küng is pictured in a 2012 photo. (CNS photo/Harald Oppitz, KNA)
Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy addresses the American Jewish Committee’s annual meeting in Washington May 15, 1998. Cardinal Cassidy died April 10, 2021, in Newcastle, Australia, at the age of 96. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

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