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Francis to create commission to study female deacons in Catholic church
Joshua McElwee is reporting this in the NCR today
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Fr Hans Küng appreciates our support
Dear René Reid,
Thank you for your kind mail. Personally I do not strive for an official rehabilitation, but I appreciate your sympathy and loyalty and welcome your initiative. The Pope’s fraternal response to my »Appeal« may encourage you.
With all good wishes,
Hans Küng
Petition to reinstate Rev Professor Hans Küng as an official Catholic theologian
7 May 2016
Dear Fr. Küng,
We will be watching eagerly for your dialogue with Pope Francis. He seems to be genuinely open to discussions such as this. If it is not well publicized, please keep us in the loop of knowing when and how it will take place and we will notify all of our supporters.
Grateful for all that you have done over your lifetime,
Rene Reid
Director, CCRI
10 May 2016
Dear René,
Thank you for your message.
In NCR (March 25 – April 7) my article was fully published.
The Pope's answer will certainly follow in one of the next issues.
Cordially,
Hans Küng
The pontificate might be stuck in the mud
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Fr. Hans Kung says Francis responded to request for free discussion on infallibility dogma
by Prof Hans Küng in the National Catholic Reporter
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 in the leading journals of several countries. I was thus overjoyed to receive a personal reply from Francis immediately after Easter. Dated March 20, it was forwarded to me from the nunciature in Berlin.
In the pope's reply, the following points are significant for me:
- The fact that Francis answered at all and did not let my appeal fall on deaf ears, so to speak;
- The fact that he replied himself and not via his private secretary or the secretary of state;
- That he emphasizes the fraternal manner of his Spanish reply by addressing me as Lieber Mitbruder("Dear Brother") in German and puts this personal address in italics;
- That he clearly read the appeal, to which I had attached a Spanish translation, most attentively;
- That he is highly appreciative of the considerations that had led me to write Volume 5 of my complete works, in which I suggest theologically discussing the different issues that the infallibility dogma raises in the light of holy Scripture and tradition with the aim of deepening the constructive dialogue between the "semper reformanda" 21st-century church and the other Christian churches and postmodern society.