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Cross posted at Political Arguments.

Andrew Sullivan tells A Very Catholic Joke:

Leonardo Boff, Hans Kung and Benedict XVI all die on the same day. They arrive at the Pearly Gates and St Peter welcomes them and says that Jesus wants to see each of them individually. Boff is first to go in to see Jesus. After half an hour, Boff comes out, shaking his head, and muttering, 'How could I have been so wrong?' Kung is next. Same deal. After a while, Kung too emerges, head in hands: 'How could I have been so wrong?' Benedict is next. After half an hour, Jesus himself comes out and groans: 'How can I have been so wrong?'

Leonardo Boff is considered the initiator and most eloquent defender of liberation theology. He was silenced by the Vatican in 1985 and again in 1992 for suggesting that growing temporal power and collusion with political and economic elites were harming the Church's spiritual mission.

Hans Küng is arguably the brightest and most celebrated Roman Catholic theologian alive today. Yet, in 1971, he was stripped of his right to teach theology for suggesting that papal infalibility was not a divine institution, but an invention of the First Vatican Council. He now presides over the Global Ethic Foundation.

Benedict XVI is the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who, as head of the Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition Doctrine of the Faith, silenced Boff and Küng.