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With regard to Canon VII, some amplification is necessary. This canon certainly does not teach that a priest cannot be given the authority to confirm. It is also possible that the Pope has the authority to empower a priest to act as an extraordinary minister of the Sacrament of Order. These points are discussed in Appendix V. 1. Pagan Servitude of the Church, cited in LPE, p.22. 2. Questions and Answers concerning the Sacraments (1540) in Miscellaneous Writings (Parker Society, 1846), p. 117. 3. R. W. Dale, A Manual of Congregational Principles (1889). Cited in LPE, p. 9. 4. LPE, p. 19. 5. Ibid. 6. LPE, p. 24. 7. J. Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vol. V, p. 648. 8. QAO, pp. 15/16. 9. QAO, pp. 16-18. 10. The Works of Thomas Cranmer (Parker Society), vol. I, p. 350. A much longer extract is included in CGO, pp. 39/40. 11. LPE, p. 10. 12. LPE, p. 8 & p. 10. 13. Erklärung zur Apostolischen Sukzession, in Infonnationsdienst der Vereinigten Evangelisch- Lutherischen KircheDeutschlands (1958).
Chapter III New Ideas and Old Mistakes In his essay, The Reason Why, G.K. Chesterton remarked that: Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again for ever, as people always do if they are left to themselves . . . She does dogmatically defend humanity from its worst foes, those hoary and horrible and devouring monsters of the old mistakes. Hans Küng is described by his English publisher as "the young protégé of modern theology"; he is "one of the world's leading theologians . . . the calmly authoritative spokesman on behalf of large sections of the Church". 1 It is not necessary to devote a good deal of time to studying his works to discover that his modern theology consists of little more than a series of very old mistakes. This can be proved by examining some of his modern theology in the light of the canons of the Council of Trent anathematizing the Protestant heresy, as cited at the conclusion of the preceding chapter. Canon IV anathematizes anyone who claims that a character is not imprinted by ordination. Küng informs us in his book Why Priests? that the concept of a sacramental character was "invented" by St. Augustine and that "later Latin theology took over the idea without verifying the existence of such a character." 2 Apparently we can no longer accept the medieval idea that the recipient of ordination is "marked with a 'character' which distinguishes him from the laity". 3 It is a "baseless notion". 4 Canons III and VI anathematize anyone who denies that either the priesthood or the hierarchy are of Divine origin, directly instituted by Christ. According to Küng: "However, one cannot assert that ordination ('ordination to the priesthood') was 'Instituted by Christ', since everyone knows that it is neither mentioned nor implicit in any Pauline text. There is not the least proof for this institution." 5 For Küng, the tradition and infallibly defined teaching of the Church not constitute proof. It is alarming to note that he is able to cite Vatican II in favour of his ideas. About Canon VI he comments: Vatican II makes three corrections to this canon: (i) the Council of Trent used the non-biblical term "hierarchy", which Vatican II replaces by the expression "church ministry" (ministerium ecclesiasticum); (ii) whereas at Trent "divina ordinatio" would seem to have referred, too, to a division of ministries among bishops, presbyters and deacons, at Vatican II "divinitus institutum" refers without any possible confusion to the ecclesial ministry as such; (iii) whereas at Trent the hierarchy "consists" (constat) of bishops, presbyters and deacons, for Vatican II the ecclesial ministry is "exercised" (exercitur) by those who from antiquity (ab antiquo), and therefore not from the origins, "have been called" (vocantur) bishops. 6 It was pointed out in Chapter I that ample support can be found the documents of Vatican II to uphold the traditional teaching of the Church, but what Küng has written here certainly highlights a comment by Professor Oscar Cullmann, the most distinguished of the Protestant Observers at the Council, that "the definitive texts are for the most part compromise texts. On far too many occasions they juxtapose opposing viewpoints without establishing any genuine internal link between them." 7 Küng is unwilling to permit the use of the term "priest" if it implies the existence of a ministerial priesthood distinct in essence from the universal priesthood of the faithful. "The New Testament shows that the word 'priest'-----like 'ecclesiastic' and 'cleric', as a special and
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