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...German bishops have been reluctant to crack down on the popular Kung, whose latest book is a bestseller in the country. Kung has not been asked to revoke past statements or keep his disputed books from further publication, said Julius Cardinal Dopfner. He has just been told "not to continue to teach such opinions...
...fundamentally hostile to Jews and Judaism" and released a 24-page critique to support the charge. In a separate statement, seven U.S. Christian scholars−including Catholic Raymond Brown−agreed that the script "reveals the sin of anti-Semitism." Jewish groups demanded that Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner boycott this year's opening. The cardinal attended anyway, but at a Mass for the actors he said: "We are all agreed that the text today needs a new version...
...Pope not to release it. While satisfactory to conservatives of the Roman Curia, Konig argued, the pronouncement was "most unwise pastorally and apostolically," and it would "do the church much damage." Such other European liberals as Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens and Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner reportedly telephoned Pope Paul with similar objections...
...bishops of pluralistic Germany and The Netherlands spearheaded the drive for easier mixed marriages. The more conservative U.S. bishops and those of Ireland feared that easing the rules might undermine the faith of the Catholic spouse. In November 1964, on the motion of Julius Cardinal Dopfner of Munich, the Vatican Council voted 1,562 to 427 to hand over the drafting of the decree to the Pope; last week's decree was the result. Protestants responded with reserved satisfaction; a Church of England spokesman called the rules "a hopeful beginning...
...Wealth of Truth. Even in the area of church teaching, development is far from impossible, said Dopfner, since "a dogma as such is not finally synonymous with divine truth but only incompletely expresses the wealth of divine truth because it sees revelation in human terms." This does not mean that the church can recant or change dogmatic definitions of the past, but it can discover new aspects of truth and find new ways to express traditional teaching...