«Aufruf zum Ungehorsam» – prester forplikter seg til å være ulydige
Man tror nesten ikke sine egne øyne når man leser at snart 10 % av katoliske prester i Østerrike har skrevet under et opprop der de lover å være ulydige mot Kirken og sine biskoper. Flere konkrete ulydighets-temaer er nevnt under:
Over 300 of Austria’s 4,200 priests have pledged to take part in Aufruf zum Ungehorsam (Call to Disobedience), an initiative launched in June.
The Call to Disobedience document cites “the Roman refusal of a long-overdue Church reform and the inaction of bishops.” Priests who support the document pledge
* to pray for Church reform at every liturgy, since “in the presence of God there is freedom of speech”
* not to deny the Holy Eucharist to “believers of good will,” including non-Catholic Christians and those who have remarried outside the Church
* to avoid offering Mass more than once on Sundays and holy days and to avoid making use of visiting priests–instead holding a “self-designed” Liturgy of the Word
* to describe such a Liturgy of the Word with the distribution of Holy Communion as a “priestless Eucharistic celebration”; “thus we fulfill the Sunday obligation in a time of priest shortage”
* to “ignore” canonical norms that restrict the preaching of the homily to clergy
* to oppose parish mergers, insisting instead that each parish have its own individual leader, “whether man or woman”
* to “use every opportunity to speak out openly in favor of the admission of the married and of women to the priesthood”“The open call to disobedience shocked me,” Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna said in a July 7 letter, noting that many professionals would have “long since lost their jobs” if they had called for disobedience. Reminding priests that they had freely promised obedience to their bishop at ordination, he asked, “Can I rely on you?” ….



















29. juni 1951 ble over 40 unge menn ordinert samtidig, og jeg husker at jeg leste akkurat dette (spesielt andre avsnitt) i boka der pave Benedikt skriver om de første 50 år av sitt liv; «Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977». 

