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...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...
...legal outcome, the hierarchy is adamant. "The true faith is that of St. Peter and the bishops, not that of the professors. Otherwise the word of God would be abandoned in chaos and confusion," declares Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Heffner, head of the West German bishops' conference. Adds Bishop Moser: "The church cannot become a playground for conflicts of theology...
...computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ. 12,750,000) all sent their covers to press many weeks ago, and the editors say they are not in a lava over the coincidence. Says the Smithsonian's Don Moser: "It just confirms our good judgment." Confirmation does not end at home: China's Ziran Zazhi (Nature) magazine also ran the same cover-on its December issue...
...other roles run from the accomplished but not overdone leporello of Jose van Dam to Kenneth Riegel's wooden Don Ottavio. Among the women, Kiri Te Knawa's Donna Elvira stands out as the most musically agile and dramatically subtle. Edda Moser afflicts Donna Anna with an unfocused voice and the worst of operatic mannerisms--especially ludicrous with instant translation in English subtitles. She shrieks and sways--the subtitle reads, "I'm fainting." She shrieks once again and staggers to embrace a marble column--"I'm dying...