Word: eucharist
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...opened the doors to modern scholarship, especially biblical research, theologians were quick to seize their new opportunities. Within a few short years, some of them were questioning everything from the church's teachings on sexual ethics to papal infallibility -even such root doctrines as the nature of the Eucharist and the divinity of Jesus Christ...
...strikes me that while you are seemingly well versed in the Catholic theology of the Eucharist prior to the Second Vatican Council, you have somehow fallen behind. I know of nothing in the council or since which implies that a Eucharistic Congress is a mark of regression...
...fact that the Pontiff chose to attend the congress-an ecclesiastical spectacular that celebrates the pre-Vatican II emphasis on the Eucharist as triumphal sacrifice-seemed to symbolize Paul's growing conservatism as he approaches his 75th birthday, next Tuesday. As if to underline his cautionary mood, the Pope last week decried a potpourri of moral pollutants-including contraception, abortion, adultery and divorce-that have made modern man "vulgar, vicious and sad." "We are walking in mud," he declared. He also linked sexual permissiveness with drug addiction. "Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics...
...believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title "leader" or "presider," denoting one elected to preach the word and preside at the community's sacramental experiences: baptism and the Eucharist...
...defend him as a courageous thinker even while often disagreeing with his specific positions. Thus, some of his most sympathetic colleagues have complained of oversimplifications in Kung's 118-page treatment of the priesthood-for example, his insistence that the New Testament view of ministry means that the Eucharist can be celebrated by any believer-and of outright historical inaccuracies in his book on infallibility. Writing in a recent issue of America magazine, New Testament Scholar Raymond E. Brown also argues that Kung's thinking suffers from a "one-sided contact with the liberal and intellectual element...