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...young priest was a comer. In 1962, Julius Cardinal Döpfner appointed him vicar-general of the Munich and Freising archdiocese. Defregger proved to be a master administrator. During Döpfner's protracted visits to Rome for the Second Vatican Council, the stocky priest with the high intellectual forehead, the cool blue eyes and the gold-rimmed glasses began to seem the cardinal's alter ego. In 1968, the Vatican agreed that Defregger should be made a bishop. "With the gift of your heart and your intelligence," wrote Pope Paul VI in his accreditation, "you appear...
Last week, as criticism grew in Munich, Cardinal Döpfner came to his assistant's defense with an impassioned plea for understanding. According to the cardinal, the division commander had first ordered Defregger to shoot all males in the village. He had refused, and the number to be executed was lowered. When he still refused, the general sent staff officers to see that the reprisals were carried out. Defregger objected again, but finally, and reluctantly, passed on the order to a lieutenant. "He himself," noted Döpfner, "did not participate in the executions...
...says one official in the Curia, "and found it wanting." In terms of the men he trusts and consults, that is unquestionably true. During the council, Paul frequently relied upon the advice of such progressive non-Italian prelates as Leo-Joseph Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna. Apparently, all three have been dismissed from favor as unsympathetic. Today, the Pope's most trusted adviser is Bishop Carlo Colombo, 59, who is a knowledgeable master of standard textbook theology. Another confidant is Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, the Pope...
Baum is not alone. With the implicit consent of Julius Cardinal DÖpfner, a committee of moral theologians in the archdiocese of Munich drew up a message of guidance for marriage lecturers on the birth-control problem. Their recommendation was that couples who practice contraception "not lightly and habitually but rather as a regrettable emergency solution" could receive Holy Communion...
...pfner is a vice president of the enlarged pontifical commission that meets for the first time in Rome this week-and faces up to its dilemma: How can the church now open the way toward birth control without contradicting the dogmatic-sounding condemnation of past Popes? But how can the church reaffirm the old prohibition and not face the formal disobedience of millions who feel that they have no other choice...