Word: schillebeeckx
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...part of Pope John Paul II's determined campaign to enforce orthodoxy, the Vatican has taken action against a number of nonconformist theologians. First it ruled that Hans Küng of West Germany could no longer call himself a Catholic theologian; next Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands was summoned to Rome for an inquiry into his theological writings; and Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff is undergoing enforced silence for advocating Marxist-tinged liberation theology...
...synod, Ratzinger and his allies are expected to warn that the church is endangered by being too immersed in worldly matters. Father Edward Schillebeeckx, a liberal theologian in the Netherlands, whose theology has been investigated by the doctrinal commission, predicts that there will be attacks against Ratzinger at the synod because, he says dryly, "it is always easier to voice criticism to a cardinal than to a Pope." The Pontiff does not necessarily share all of Ratzinger's views. During an August plane trip returning from Africa, John Paul told reporters that Ratzinger's plea for reconstruction is "his personal...