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| Topic Started: Saturday, 17. April 2010, 00:19 (4,283 Views) | |
| CARLO | Wednesday, 28. April 2010, 23:53 Post #121 |
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SORRY 16 April at 2319 hrs! Thanks Rose Salva me Save me CARLO |
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| stefan | Wednesday, 11. August 2010, 16:26 Post #122 |
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Hans Kung is either a prophet or an enemy of the Catholic Church. In either case Jesus tells us to love him! Unfortunately we have a history of killing our prophets, or at best in not listening to them. Listening is a very painful activity, because it may reveal flaws in our thinking. Love, love & love Stefan |
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| garfield | Wednesday, 11. August 2010, 20:18 Post #123 |
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People are listening and responding, that's why we have a forum and welcome to it Stefan Edited by garfield, Wednesday, 11. August 2010, 20:19.
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| Rose of York | Wednesday, 11. August 2010, 20:33 Post #124 |
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Thanks to the internet, laity have an opportunity to listen, think, and share our thoughts. The Holy Spirit inspires prophets. But for forums, many Catholics would have no opportunity to hear what they say, and explore the meaning, and do our best to discern what is and what is not genuinely the work of the Spirit. I have mixed feelings about Hans Kung's open letter, now that Stefan has revived the thread, I hope to receive some guidance from members more widely read than I, on these matters. Welcome to the forum, Stefan. |
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| Angus Toanimo | Friday, 13. August 2010, 13:12 Post #125 |
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The sooner Hans Kung is laicised the better. He is a dangerous heretic. |
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| Gerard | Monday, 16. August 2010, 19:38 Post #126 |
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Good post Stefan. We do have a history of killing our prophets - though nowadays demotion and banishment are more the norm. Hans Kung is a prophet who loves the Catholic Church. Gerry |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 16. August 2010, 19:57 Post #127 |
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Some in high places "love the Church" they are prepared to sit back and watch it fall apart. They do not like change. What they love is not The Church, it is The Church as it is in their comfort zone. |
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| tomais | Monday, 16. August 2010, 21:16 Post #128 |
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As an ignorant onlooker what indeed is this all about? Multiple argumentative positions in introspective beliefs based upon aged learning. Result? ZERO ! perhaps a little more understanding analysis may be fruiitful to those to whom ancient yellowing parchments and Chises whispered hand me downs are discomforting. So then the age old that geriatric question quibble- what is truth? Who is Kung? What is Kung? Soon a footnote as will be so many others filling up the spaces in minority journals and on the far away very far away horizons of millions and millions of religious punters world wide. Now to serious English news; how goes the football opening games? Which team does Archbishop Nichols support? And how many Pakistanis are going to die of drowning and disease? See letters in the " Times" |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 16. August 2010, 21:50 Post #129 |
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tomais to see what it is all about see post 1 on page 1 of this little jaw jaw. Agreed, Pakistan trouble is the important news. Not getting as much coverage as the big trunami because pictures of water moving slowly are not as sensational as big wave moving fast and furiously. |
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| PJD | Monday, 16. August 2010, 21:50 Post #130 |
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"Who is Kung? What is Kung? Soon a footnote as will be so many others filling up the spaces in minority journals and on the far away very far away horizons of millions and millions of religious punters world wide" True, true, true Tomais; but as such keeps some of us on their toes. PJD |
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| OsullivanB | Monday, 16. August 2010, 23:14 Post #131 |
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or on our knees? |
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| Clare | Tuesday, 17. August 2010, 09:29 Post #132 |
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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Then why does he hate everything the Church has ever stood for? What he loves is manifestly not the Church. He wants the Church to be something She is not and has never been. He wants a Church that ordains women, approves of abortion, contraception, and homosexuality, etc. In short, he wants a non-Catholic Church. He does not love the Church, any more than a man loves his wife when he wants her to be someone other than she has always been. He is not a prophet. Prophets are right. He is utterly wrong on practically everything. |
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| Angus Toanimo | Tuesday, 17. August 2010, 10:19 Post #133 |
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Well said. How it could be said that Hans Kung loves the Church is beyond me. He hates the Church, that is plainly evident. As Clare said, he wants Her to be anything but Catholic. He is not licensed to teach, having had that revoked. Catholics should not listen to him. |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 17. August 2010, 20:57 Post #134 |
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Would you care to be more specific, Patrick? |
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| Angus Toanimo | Tuesday, 17. August 2010, 23:43 Post #135 |
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A Religion the New York Times can love. This article gives a great insight to Hans Kung. These remarks are mild, however, compared to the blistering invective Küng directed at Pope John Paul II. He marked the 25th anniversary of John Paul's election by labeling his pontificate "a disaster," In his 2003 memoir, he declares that the young Karol Wojtyla received a "thin theological foundation" because he couldn't make the cut for the Jesuit-run Gregorian University, and so was forced to settle for a third-rate education at the Angelicum. As the Pope lay on his deathbed, Küng wrote in Der Speigel that he had become "the symbol of a fraudulent church that has calcified and become senile." |
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