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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...
...Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans Küng, refusing to be read out of the church and telling the Pope that infallibility is a wrong idea...
Then, finally, on the sixth day - Sat urday morning - a few of them start to break down. Two of the girls begin weep ng, confessing they have no real knowledge of their own identity. A boy blurts out an intense analysis of his own re lationship with his parents that leaves him sobbing "I've never . . . never been able to love anybody before...
Tepid Reproach. Kűng's challenge could hardly be ignored. The Vatican's doctrinal congregation sent reactions of its member cardinals off to the German bishops, who questioned Kung, then issued a tepid public reproach several weeks ago. Kűng boasted that they had skirted condemnation, leaving the way open to further debate. In Italy, Pope Paul's most intimate theological adviser, Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from...
...Infallible? An Inquiry, Hans Kűng...