TO ALBERTO HUERTA, S.J.

Huerta said he was ‘plowing’ through the recently published first volume of Sherry’s biography. He had also heard rumours that Graham had left the Church.

La Résidence des Fleurs, | Avenue Pasteur, | 06600 Antibes | 1st August 1989

Dear Fr. Huerta,

Leopoldo³¹has just spent a few days here but I have too much work, too much age.

Reviewers have been rather kind to Sherry’s first volume, but I found it far too long and full of unnecessary details. Anyway I hate being written about and there is another man Mockler³²coming on the scene shortly. At least Sherry writes well but Mockler doesn’t.

Your rumour is not quite correct. I usually go to Mass on a Sunday but sometimes I have too many people to see or too much work to do. I disagree with a good deal that the Pope has said and done but that doesn’t mean that I have left the Church. I would call myself at the worst a Catholic agnostic!

All good wishes,
Yours ever,
Graham Greene

TO HANS KÜNG

The Swiss theologian Hans Küng (b. 1928) served with his friend and colleague Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as a theological consultant to the Second Vatican Council. Whereas Ratzinger turned to the right after 1968, Küng became a dissident within the Church. Largely in response to his Infallible? An Inquiry (1971), Pope John Paul II stripped him of his licence to teach theology.

La Résidence des Fleurs, | Avenue Pasteur, | 06600 Antibes | Oct. 24 89

Dear Hans Küng,

I was delighted to get your essay³³with its generous & undeserved dédicace. The admiration is all on my side & the gratitude, for helping me to keep one foot in the Catholic church. It’s a delight to add this essay to the five books of yours I have on my shelves.

Yours with gratitude, admiration and friendship.
Graham Greene

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