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Rome clamps down on rebel Austrian priest

Published: November 29, 2012

The Vatican has stripped a prominent Austrian priest who has spear-heading calls for church reform of his right to use the title monsignor, according to a Reuters report in The Tablet.

Rome also said today that Helmut Schüller was no longer a "Chaplain of His Holiness", Reuters reported. However he remains a priest.

Fr Schüller, a former vicar-general to Vienna's archbishop, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, had been given the honorary title in his capacity as head of the Austrian branch of the Catholic charity Caritas.

Last year he founded the Austrian Priests' Initiative, which in its "Call to Disobedience" favours the ordination of women and married men and communion for remarried divorcees, and has inspired the establishment of similar groups in Germany, Ireland, France, the US and Australia.

FULL STORY Rome clamps down on rebel Austrian priest (Tablet)

 

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  1. It's difficult not to contrast Rome's hostile attitude to reformers with its more accommodating attitudes to sex offenders and Lefevrists.

    Posted By: RobJ

  2. I wonder what the Vatican thinks it will achieve by this? Total obedience from the dissident priests or a repudiation of issues that prompted the 'Call to Disobedience' movement in the first place? Hardly.
    The issues are real, cogent and here to stay. Rome is in denial of the problems facing the Church, although it says differently. Punishing Monsignor Schüller reminds me of the attitude that prevailed in the Church prior to Vatican II, when punishment was equated to control.
    Call to Disobedience priests and laity will not be silenced by this type of feudalistic behavior.

    Posted By: Jeff Kevin

  3. No doubt the good Father won't miss the honorific.

    Posted By: JR,Sydney

  4. JR: When the wolf is stripped of its sheep's clothing, you might expect it to be at least a little disappointed, much like those abusive priests who finally found themselves separated from their 'flocks'.
    Not that heresy is as anything like as bad as sexual abuse, although they both have the effect of separating one from God.

    Posted By: Paul Keen

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