From New Zealand-Our own Anglican Archbishop David Moxon has just been appointed to a high office in the Vatican. He will be the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative to the Holy See and the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, indeed a senior position; well done David Moxon, and what a time to be going to that city.
Just before Pope Benedict XVI resigned, a prominent theologian named Hans Kung sent a severely critical, open, seven-page letter to all Catholic bishops. I wonder whether that was the final straw for Pope Benedict. It hit him hard and the letter was relentless in its criticism of his eight-year rule as the leader of the Catholic Church.
Kung is a Swiss Catholic priest and a keen advocate for removing the concept of "papal infallibility". His old college friend, the pope, has spent his eight years in power attempting to build up the concept of "papal infallibility", which for the layman means that the pope is effectively "God on Earth" and therefore beyond reproach.
But putting that aside, Kung's main claims were that Pope Benedict, when facing the major challenges of our times, increasingly passed up on more opportunities than he had taken. The seven areas of alleged failure for the pope, contained in the letter, were as follows:
He has missed the opportunity to help the people of Africa by allowing the use of birth control to fight overpopulation, and condoms to fight the spread of HIV.
He has missed the opportunity to make peace with modern science by clearly affirming the theory of evolution and accepting stem-cell research.
More here-
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/opinion/8438559/Waikato-Anglican-archbishop-takes-on-liaison-role-at-Vatican
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