Word: kung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kung scrapped his scheduled lecture on the Apostles' Creed and instead read a long statement titled "Why I Remain a Catholic," and answered questions. He emphasized again his rejection of the doctrinal infallibility of the Pope and the bishops. "I have no intention of giving up my duties as a priest and theologian, or of leaving the church," he stated. "To teach absolute obedience to the leader is a disservice to the younger generation...
...read from every pulpit in the nation this week, it said: "Not even the Pope himself is free from error. But if the bishops and the Pope state that something is God-revealed, then the help of the Holy Spirit prevents them from error. This is what Professor Kung denies, and it is a fundamental tenet of the faith...
After the Vatican acted against Kung last month, 2,000 demonstrators rallied in Lucerne, Switzerland, waving such banners as: AFTER THE VATICAN COUNCIL - THE ICE AGE. In Rottenburg, West Germany, within 48 hours, 4,000 people signed a petition from an ad hoc protest committee. Last week worshipers emerged from Mass at the cathedral in Cologne to find 37 protesting priests and seminarians hanging Kung in effigy and burning his books: the pantomime was intended to satirize the church's decision. Otherwise, the Kung case has so far produced joint protests from scholars but little of the general uproar that...
...Vatican acted under terms of its concordat with Germany, a holdover from the era of the diplomat Popes, under which professors of Roman Catholic theology at state institutions must have a missio canonica (canonical mission to teach) from the local bishop. In Kung's case, this is Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Austria is the only other nation where a concordat gives bishops so much power over theologians at secular campuses. Elsewhere, except for schools under direct church control, the Vatican has only the power to inform Catholics that a professor's views are not sanctioned...
...Kung has long declined to go to Rome unless the Vatican guarantees him an open hearing, which it has refused to do. When the decree was issued, he met with Bishop Moser, who agreed to take a letter from Kung to the Pope. After that, John Paul II held a five-hour meeting on the case with three Vatican officials, Moser and four other German bishops. The result: all participants agreed to stand firm, and Moser returned to notify the university and the education ministry of the state of Baden-Württemberg...