This is taken from Clerical Whispers Blog and I read it with some sadness.
" Hans Kung has declined an invitation to attend celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council at the German
Katholikentag at Mannheim, held from tomorrow until Sunday.
The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Germany's largest Catholic lay organisation which is organising the Congress and has more than 12 million members, invited Fr Küng and the former President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, to participate in their "Council Gala".
The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Germany's largest Catholic lay organisation which is organising the Congress and has more than 12 million members, invited Fr Küng and the former President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, to participate in their "Council Gala".
But four days before the congress was due to begin, Fr Küng declined.
"I
was honoured to receive the invitation but is one really in the mood
to celebrate at a time when the Church is in such sore distress?" Fr
Küng asked in his four-page reply.
"In
my opinion there is no reason for a festive Council Gala but rather
for an honest service of penance or a funeral service," he said.
Meanwhile as Pentecost approaches and as it is the 5Oth Anniversary Year of Vatican II here's an opportunity to revisit some views of what Vatican II meant.
"Seven inches of condemnations and one of praise: is that the way to talk to the modern world?
(After taking a ruler to a page of one of the haughty and pompous schemata, drafts prepared by the curia for approval of the Council Fathers. From John XXIII: Pope of the Century by Pete Hebblethwaite (p. 213).")
- Click here for the site Conciliaria, where you can relive the moving and hope-filled days of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
- I find this an excellent article by Robert Blair Keiser of considerable value. He covered the Council for Time Magazine.
- and also this one by Giovanni Franzoni, a former Benedictine abbot, Catholic theologian, and eyewitness to Vatican II, offered these reflections at the 31st Congress of the Asociación de Teólogos y Teólogas Juan XXIII in Madrid October last year
Catholic "Truth", or "Spiritual Reaganomics" ? (queeringthechurch.com)
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