Fr. Roel,
I want to stay as much as possible through doctrine that is supported and defined by the Catechism of the One, Holy Roman Catholic Church. As you said before, we are judged by our actions. That is true, and it is in prayerful observation that we , the people of God, hope that the actions of Fr. Kung do not further damage the faith. I have read Kung's paper when he accused His Holiness in being to rigid, and accused His Holiness of being reactionary, conservative and old. Why? Simply because His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI's theological viewpoint differs from that of Hans Kung, who, incidentally, was a colleague of his from the past.
The Word and Decision of the Pope and the Ecumenical Council is definitive. The Catechism teaches us:
880 When Christ instituted the Twelve, "he constituted [them] in the form of a college or permanent assembly, at the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from among them."398 Just as "by the Lord's institution, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a single apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are related with and united to one another."
882 The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, "is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful."402 "For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered."
891 "The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful - who confirms his brethren in the faith he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals. . . . The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, they exercise the supreme Magisterium," above all in an Ecumenical Council.418 When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine "for belief as being divinely revealed,"419 and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions
"must be adhered to with the obedience of faith."420 This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself."Reference:
The Catechism of the One, Holy, Roman Catholic Church
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