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To: xzins; BlackElk; Salvation; NYer
Kung's only crime was in disputing papal infallibility.

A quick scan of Google brought this up from 1998.

Hans Kung: Vatican Rehab or Challenge to Change?
Some speculate whether Swiss theologian will be next "prodigal son"

On January 30, in another in a long series of sharp attacks on the Holy See, dissident theologian, Father Hans Kung also denounced the bishops of Germany for accepting the decision of Pope John Paul II that Catholic counselors should not provide the certificates of counseling required of women seeking abortions.

Kung accused the German bishops of "servile obedience" to the "Roman Kremlin", and said that by accepting the pope's decision, they had lost their "credibility" and their "apostolic franchise." He called for "tenacious resistance" against the authority of Rome, which he said was based on "half-truths" and "camouflage", and hinted that the German bishops were motivated by their desire to become cardinals.

Kung has accused the pope of imposing a "rigid, stagnating and despotic rule in the spirit of the Inquisition". Two years ago he called for a new pope who would "save the barque of Saint Peter from sinking" by changing the teaching on women priests, married male priests, divorce and birth control.

http://www.adoremus.org/Kung-598.html

Gott in Himmel!

12 posted on 09/26/2005 9:34:56 AM PDT by siunevada
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Either way, Kung's ideas permeate the Church far more than neo-Catholic/Dale Hudson conservatism/EWTN-charismatic bent that gets bandied about on this forum.

In my interaction with fellow Catholics on a daily basis @ the parish level ... it is Kung who rules the day ... and this is what fuels the traditionalist movement.

15 posted on 09/26/2005 9:53:39 AM PDT by Pio (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
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To: siunevada

Ach du meine Gotte. Was ist ihm passiert?!#


26 posted on 09/26/2005 1:51:30 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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