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A good theologian joke
by glossator | April 21, 2007 at 01:05 pm
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A barzelletta from Giulio Meotti's essay that appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, noted at Papa Ratzinger Blog.
There's a joke going around the Vatican. The progressive Swiss theologian Hans Kung reaches Paradise and discusses his theories with St Peter. He leaves the interview in tears, saying, "How could I have been so wrong?" The same situation; the heretical priest Leonardo Boff leaves in tears: "How could I have been so wrong?" Then it's the turn of Joseph Ratzinger, the German who became pope as Benedict XVI. At the end of the meeting, St Peter leaves in tears: "How could I have been so wrong?"
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