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Liberal Catholics are also angry with John Paul's Vatican for declaring that Father Hans Küng no longer be considered a "Catholic theologian." This order forced Küng's official removal last April from the Catholic theology faculty at the University of Tübingen, where he still teaches as a free-floating professor. Küng was in the U.S. and Britain during John Paul's visit. The Pope never mentioned him by name, but in a meeting with theologians he defended the duty of church authorities to preserve divine truth. Elsewhere...
...ng, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Boll and 133 other prominent Europeans publicly petitioned Rome to ease up in its objections to married priests, birth control, divorce and mixed marriage (47% of German Catholics now marry outside their faith). Here and there on the tour picketers protested about abortion and birth control, or held such placards as Frauen zum Altar (women to the altar). At the Pope's last stop, Barbara Engl, speaking for Munich's Catholic youth league, attacked the church for constant "prohibitions" on "friendship, sexuality and partnership...
...just one year the Vatican has summarily dealt with issues such as the theological questioning of Küng, the aspiration of women to a full role in the church, and now Father Drinan's activities in public office [May 19]. Surely Pope John Paul II, who spoke to millions of Poles of the "Church of Silence" and who knelt in prayer at Auschwitz, cannot be unappreciative of a priest's part in politics. Or are we to believe that the return to his homeland last June was only a sentimental journey...
...Besides that, the 20th century is littered with the sorry results of supplanting God with an absolute force that is not divine, such as the "people" in Nazism or the party in Communism. Küng's lucid analysis contends that atheism's 19th century patriarchs proclaimed their theories but never bothered to prove them. Ludwig Feuerbach, the founder of modern atheism, asserted that religious beliefs were mere projections of mankind's noblest qualities; Küng responds that such philosophers' belief in the goodness of human nature is far more likely to be such...
...Moral Proof. This is essentially Küng's approach. Conscience doth make Christians - or at least theists...