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...bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives in the hierarchy. Moreover, it is still uncertain whether Rome will require Boff to retract some of the arguments in his troublesome book Church: Charism and Power (Crossroad), which described the relation between the hierarchy and laity in terms of class struggle...
...Vatican has long been concerned about Boff's 1981 book, Church: Charism & Power, and last September he was summoned to Rome for interrogation. In a forceful March "notification," the Vatican rejected the book's Marxist- influenced examination of the Roman Catholic Church. Boff theorized about the sacraments as consumer products controlled by the bishops and priests. His ideas, said Rome, "endanger" the faith...
...Brazil, a mild-mannered Franciscan friar awaits a ruling from Rome over possible "theological errors" in his latest book, Church: Charism and Power, published in 1981. In the book, Theologian Leonardo Boff attacks the "monarchic and pyramidic" structure of the Catholic Church, which, he says, inevitably aligns the church with the rich. Father Boff wants the pyramid of power turned upside down, so that "the church would be, not for the poor, but by the poor...
Though Boff has been under close Vatican scrutiny since 1975, the current crisis results from his 1981 book, Church: Charism and Power (due in English next January from Crossroad). Like all liberation theologians, Boff sees the essential mission of Christianity as a political mobilization of the poor. But his book fervently applies similar revolutionary analysis to the structure of the church. In one of the controversial passages, Boff writes that in the classic view "the churchgoer has nothing" while "the bishops and the priests received everything. It is true capitalism." As he explains to TIME, "The Vatican wants to centralize...
Shift Right. The Armbruster report earned the conservatives' wrath by concluding that there were no Scriptural or dogmatic grounds for forbidding either a married priesthood or the ordination of women. It described the "charism" of celibacy and the "charism" of the ministry as two separate spiritual gifts not always granted to the same person. In reply, Hartford Archbishop John Whealon recommended at a press conference that bishops "abort the present approach" in favor of "scholarly, disciplined theological research...