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2024-04-26, 3:00 AM |
Freedom Within And Without Part 2
Earlier
this
year,
Cardinal Christoph
Schönborn of Vienna gave a glimpse
of what this
might mean.
He said: "Freedom is the best starting point for the convincing, believ- ing and strong
Church
of the future, which
will look quite different from the Church we have known up to now.” It might mean a painful
goodbye
to the Church of his childhood "but reality leaves us no other choice”.Thanks to Dignitatis Humanae, the Church has become a friend
to freedom in the secular world but is still some way from being so in its own affairs – which is
what
Cardinal Schönborn was plainly referring to. This inconsistency can- not last. If there should be no coercion or persecution in relations between faiths and the state, or between one faith and another, then there should be none within a single faith. What applies to the freedom
of Muslims
to become Christians – and vice versa, of course
– also applies
to the freedom of Christians (including bishops)
to express themselves freely on any reli- gious matters that concern
them.It is the same principle. But many within the Catholic Church’s power structure have yet to grasp the point.
As a result,
an enforced
consensus pervades the Church. All credit, therefore, to those who challenge it, including Cardinal Schönborn and the later Cardinal Carlo Maria
Martini and, indeed,
Joseph Ratzinger’s old adversary Hans Küng. And all credit to Dignitatis Humanae for sowing the seeds.
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