Posted on 04/27/2016 6:30:23 AM PDT by marshmallow
Editor's note: Fr. Hans Küng, the Swiss theologian, says that he has received a letter from Pope Francis that responds "to my request to give room to a free discussion on the dogma of infallibility."
Küng declined to show the letter to NCR, citing "the confidentiality that I owe to the Pope," but he says the letter was dated March 20 and sent to him via the nunciature in Berlin shortly after Easter.
Küng says the letter shows that "Francis has set no restrictions" on the discussions.
Küng also said that he is very encouraged by Francis' recent apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia ('The Joy of Love'), "I could not have foreseen then quite how much new freedom Francis would open up in his post-synodal exhortation," Kung wrote in statement released to NCR and other media outlets. "Already in the introduction, he declares, 'Not all discussions of doctrinal, moral or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium.'"
Küng writes, "This is the new spirit that I have always expected from the magisterium" and makes a discussion of infallibility possible.
On March 9, Küng had issued what he called an "urgent appeal to Pope Francis to permit an open and impartial discussion on infallibility of pope and bishops." The appeal was released simultaneously in multiple languages and publications. NCR and The Tablet of London released the English language version. (NCR, March 25-April 7).
Following is the text of the statement about the pope's letter that Küng released to media. The English version is being released simultaneously by National Catholic Reporter and The Tablet at midnight April 27 (7 p.m. Eastern time, April 26 in the United States).
-- Dennis Coday, NCR editor
On March 9, my appeal to Pope Francis to give room to a free, unprejudiced and open-ended discussion on the problem of infallibility appeared..........
(Excerpt) Read more at ncronline.org ...
This [pope] too shall pass.
I don’t think the current Pope should be given a millimeter’s slack on the infallibility doctrine, as he has shown a willingness to rewrite what the church is to satisfy his own, trendy tastes.
Not soon enough.
In the South, when you sugar coat a disagreeable message, it’s called Nice Nasty. If the Holy Spirit didn’t exempt from idiotic human freedom, this one thing— keeping the descendant of Peter of the Denial of Christ Thrice before the Cock Crowed Twice from spewing out Faith & morals errors ex cathedra—you’d have him making even bigger idiotic statements than Global Warming.
“Not soon enough.”
2 Peter 3:8: “But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.”
Sometimes we all have to remember Lamentations 3:25-26.
A pope denying infallibility is like saying "This statement is false." Very confusing.
Hans Kung still around? Prohibited from teaching as a Catholic theologian in ‘79. Globalist with his ‘Global Ethic’. Now has Parkinson disease.
Why not just have one big fat sweeping proclamation that every dogma of the Faith is null and void? Gently wean Catholics off these notions by throwing out one dogma per week. In 5 years we will be free of judgmental, ritualistic, pharisiacal, rigid neo-palagianism! On that great Day of Mercy, god will be recreated in the self-image of man. Alleluia!
The man will meet with anyone and talk about anything, why is this a problem?
You know, now that I think about it weren’t you griping about St John Paul II when he said mass in Africa with liturgical dancers? There will always be something to gin up a scandal about.
Who should really care what Hans Küng says.
Take off your rose-colored glasses. Francis refused to meet with the Dali Lama out fear of offending the Chinese Red-Coms, who to this day persecute true Catholics who have been driven underground. He also cancelled a scheduled meeting with the conservative Catholic Cardinal, Angelo Scola; and he has chastised his subordinates who had arranged a surprise private meeting with Kim Davis in the U.S.
Another aging member of the Vatican-2 “Jacket and Tie” brigade:
http://www.novusordowatch.org/_Media/kung-sweeney_med.jpeg
Which includes fellow card carrying members, the periti “experts”, ahem, Rahner and Ratzinger:
http://www.novusordowatch.org/_Media/rahner-ratzinger_med.jpeg
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