Word: concordat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vatican acted under terms of its concordat with Germany, a holdover from the era of the diplomat Popes, under which professors of Roman Catholic theology at state institutions must have a missio canonica (canonical mission to teach) from the local bishop. In Kung's case, this is Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Austria is the only other nation where a concordat gives bishops so much power over theologians at secular campuses. Elsewhere, except for schools under direct church control, the Vatican has only the power to inform Catholics that a professor's views are not sanctioned...
...things stood last week, Kung is a supposedly verbotener theologian who remains a member of Tübingen's Catholic faculty and head of its Institute for Ecumenical Research. But in compliance with the concordat, Kung will no longer officially instruct would-be priests or those training to teach Catholic theology, formerly 60% of his students. They may sit in on his lectures, but will not receive academic credit. The minister-president of Baden-Württemberg state, Lothar Spath, plans a "careful legal examination" of the concordat to determine whether Kung can remain on the Catholic faculty at Tübingen...