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KUNG : THE NEXT STEP STUTTGART, West Germany (NC) — Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart had told Father Hans Kung to leave the Catholic theology facility of the University of Tubingen, said an official of the Baden-Wurttemberg State Education Ministry.
Theologian: 'Too many popes' : Defence of Laity study day Father Kung on vocations Background to Dutch crisis Pages 2, 3
37 Viets baptised Nearly half the 37 Vietnamese receiving baptism at St. Thomas' .hurch Claremont last Sunday were adults. Australians were sponsors in many cases and the church was packed for the two-and-a-half-hour ceremony during which baptism was conferred by Father Augustine Thu SJ.MonsignorJ. Bourke, representing Archbishop Goody and Father B. Hickley, Director of Catholic Migration. Also present were Mr. Ray O'Connor, State Minister for Migration, Mr. John MARTYR, MHR pictured above with some of the congregation, and Senator F. Chaney, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. The adult converts had been contacted by Father Thu, a refugee priest now in Adelaide during his last visit. Father Thu has been on a tw(mveek visit to Perth.
Bishop Moser, in whose based on Father Kung's diocese the university is rejection of church doctrine located, delivered the of the infallibility of the pope c omand to the State and the church, which holds Education Ministry after the that they cannot err when confirmation of the Vat- t eaching definitively on ican's declaration that the fundamental matters of faith Swiss-born Father Kung can or morals. no longer be considered a Catholic theologian or teach STATUS as such. Bishop Moser, one of five Father Kung, who has said West German bishops who t hat Pope John Paul II discussed the censure with condemned him without a the pope on December 28. hearing, said that he had no told the Education Ministry intention of complying with that Father Kung had to give Bishop Moser's demand. up his post because the He said that the bishop had theology faculty had church exceeded his jurisdiction. as well as State status. The declaration by the "Professor Kung is Vatican Congregation for consequently obliged to give the Doctrine of the Faith was up his church-connected State office," the bishop told the ministry and asked them to find a replacement in keeping with the provisions o f the 1933 concordat between Germany and the Holy See.
ROME (NC) — Father Schillebeeckx has called for a less centralized church and warned against "the danger that the church is identified with the pope."
on February 10
TO COURT Father Kung said that this
A sharing of experiences about how people was "an excessive interpretation" of the concordat The call came in a January 7 being revitalized because hypertension in which have been affected in their lives by priests and provisions and that he would Religious will be a feature of a day for Catholic go to court if necesary to interview with the Belgian- there is less need — I don't confidence is lacking." born theologian published in say no need — for a Church authority in laity. clarify whether the church
the Rome daily newspaper centralization in Rome." has the right to interpret modern times could be The study day to be held at On February 10 the first them so broadly. Messaggero." exercised in a "democratic at 10.30 Trinity College on February session will begin Father Schillebeeckx, who KUNG Even a Catholic theology form" the theologian said. spent three days at the Urging Pope John Paul II "The power of Christ is the 10. will focus on Daybreak a.m. and the final session will faculty was a State establishVatican in December before to perform his ministry in a church, in the faithful and in 1980 the national campaign conclude at 3.30 p.m. ment, not a church one, the on vocations to priesthood Those attending are asked theologian said. a panel investigating his less public way, Father the magisterium. to bring their lunch with The spokesman for the ideas, also defended fellow Schillebeeckx added, -The "One cannot say that the and religious life. theologian, Father Hans papacy in the future must be power rests solely in the Father Jim O'Brien the them and a cup of tea will be state Education Ministry provided. Kung, and said that there exercised in a less centralized magisterium." ;aid that negotiations would Archdiocesan chairman of were "too many popes" in the manner." Father Schillebeeckx said the campaign, said that Because many lay promo- l- ow have to be held Roman Curia, the church's Regarding Father Kung. that there were "too many parish priests had been ters are also acolytes and nvolving the church, Father central administration. t he Swiss-born priest popes" in the Curia and that notified of the study day and involved in their own Kung and the university. "One must remember that teaching in West Germany the cardinals working in the were invited to send along parishes there will be no with the aim of reaching a in the first centuries the local who was censured by the Curia have more power than a ny parishioners they Mass at the study day. larmonious solution. churches were the funda- Vatican in late December, other members oft he College thought might be willing to mental, vital and primary Father Schillebeeckx was o f Cardinals working take leading roles in the centres of the church," he strongly supportive. elsewhere. c ampaign within their said. " Kung is completely "This modifies the image of parishes. "Now the local church is orthodox when it comes to collegiality as it was outlined Christology and the question by the Second Vatican The programme of the day would be based on a pilot Council," he said. of the Trinity," he said. "His is an interpretation of The theologian said that he p roject conducted at was working on a new book Merredin late last year. dogma, not a negation." . "Perhaps some theologians dealing with "the questions People had come from negate it," he added. "This is of collegiality,, of the papcy. infallibility and pastoral surrounding parishes on that not the case with Kung." occasion and many expressministry". ed appreciation of the experience.
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Father Schillebeeckx said that it was "normal" that there was a "conservative tendency" within the official church, since it was charged with safeguarding the faith. Similarily, "a certain tension between the magisterium (the church's teaching authority) and t heological research" is normal, he said. ftisolmoirWati.091"0.0 "What is not normal is a
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