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Over 300 Austrian priests join \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCall to Disobedience\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nJuly 13, 2011<\/p>\n
Over 300 of Austria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 4,200 priests have pledged to take part in Aufruf zum Ungehorsam (Call to Disobedience), an initiative launched in June.<\/p>\n
The Call to Disobedience document cites \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Roman refusal of a long-overdue Church reform and the inaction of bishops.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Priests who support the document pledge:<\/p>\n
*to pray for Church reform at every liturgy, since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the presence of God there is freedom of speech\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n *not to deny the Holy Eucharist to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153believers of good will,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including non-Catholic Christians and those who have remarried outside the Church
\n *to avoid offering Mass more than once on Sundays and holy days and to avoid making use of visiting priests–instead holding a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self-designed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Liturgy of the Word
\n *to describe such a Liturgy of the Word with the distribution of Holy Communion as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153priestless Eucharistic celebration\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thus we fulfill the Sunday obligation in a time of priest shortage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n *to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ignore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d canonical norms that restrict the preaching of the homily to clergy
\n *to oppose parish mergers, insisting instead that each parish have its own individual leader, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153whether man or woman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n *to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153use every opportunity to speak out openly in favor of the admission of the married and of women to the priesthood\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The open call to disobedience shocked me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cardinal Christoph Sch\u00c3\u00b6nborn of Vienna said in a July 7 letter, noting that many professionals would have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153long since lost their jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if they had called for disobedience. Reminding priests that they had freely promised obedience to their bishop at ordination, he asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can I rely on you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Christian obedience is a school of freedom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the cardinal added. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is about the concrete translation into life of what we pray in every Our Father, when we ask the Father that His will be done in heaven and on earth \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This willingness is made concrete in religious obedience to the Pope and bishops.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Those who truly in conscience believe that they must disobey the hierarchy, and that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRome\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is on the wrong track [and] gravely contradicts the will of God,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ought in consequence to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153travel the way no more with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe and hope, however, that this extreme case does not occur here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The one who gives up the principle of obedience dissolves unity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the cardinal continued, as he pledged to meet with the initiative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leaders and point out its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inconsistencies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153priestless Eucharist.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The new initiative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web site is registered in the name of Father Hans Bensdorp, until 2010 the parish priest of the Church of the Rosary in Hetzendorf in the Archdiocese of Vienna. A YouTube video, uploaded in 2009, shows an excerpt from the Mass commemorating the 35th anniversary of Father Bensdorp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priestly ordination, according to the video\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s description. Tensions between the papacy and segments of the Church in Austria are not novel, as witnessed by the advent of Josephinism in the 18th centry, the fin-de-si\u00c3\u00a8cle Los von Rom (Free from Rome) movement, and disagreements between the Vatican and Vienna Cardinal Theodor Innitzer in the face of the Nazi Anschluss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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