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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...
...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...
...whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that...
...Thereby hangs an explanation. Phelps Phelps was originally named Phelps von Rottenburg. His father was a Count von Rottenburg whom his mother met and married while living in Germany with her ambassadorial father. Came the War, and a divorce. Names were changed and Phelps von Rottenburg had no choice but Phelps Phelps...
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