Word: kung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago Kung's blunt denial of papal infallibility in his book Infallible? An Inquiry caused him to be assailed by Catholic officialdom (TIME, April 5, 1971). Even his longtime mentor, Progressive Jesuit Karl Rahner, regretfully concluded that Küng must henceforth be dealt with as if he were a liberal Protestant. Now he has published another book, Why Priests? (Doubleday; $5.95), from which the above quotations are drawn. It will confirm Kung's Protestant proclivities in the minds of many...
...basic outlines of Kung's new churchman, however, are already distinct: "The church's ministry of leadership does not have to be full-time ... It does not have to be for life ... It does not have to be celibate ... It does not have to be exclusively male; women should be admitted to ordination." The very title "priest" should be dropped, Küng says, "since, according to the New Testament view, all believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title...
...heretic by most conservative Catholics, dismissed as a maverick by many moderates, Küng still has some support among progressive theologians who 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...
While some Catholic progressives greeted the new rules as a step in the right direction, however small, outspoken Theologian Hans Kung (Infallible?, Why Priests?) of Germany's Tubingen University was less sanguine. Küng called the regulations "poorly applied cosmetics . . . eyewash for the growing choir of criticism from both clergy and laity." A case in point for Küng's skepticism is one of the Pope's recent episcopal choices, Bishop Johannes Gijsen of the Dutch diocese of Roermond, who was selected over the nominees of the diocesan chapter. Three days after the Vatican announced...
...emphasis begun by Family is showing up in several new entries. The Catholics and Jews are getting CBS's Bridget Loves Bernie, a variation on Abie's Irish Rose, which soft-petaled mixed marriages on Broadway in the '20s. In a more tentative gesture, ABC has Kung Fu, an adventure show set in the old West with a Chinese hero, to be aired every fourth Saturday...