Speaking during the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia, Swiss theologian Fr Hans Kung said the Church needs another Vatican council to move reforms forward. “A third council would take up the justified concerns that were not fulfilled in the last council. It was forbidden to speak about celibacy; we did not discuss divorce though dozens of millions of Catholics are in this situation; and we did not discuss women’s issues like conception,” Fr Kung, who was involved in Vatican II, said, The Age reports.
He said another global council would not happen because the Vatican was afraid. Instead, it was trying to restore the pre-Vatican II church but was encountering strong resistance, not just from the grassroots but from bishops, according to The Age report.
“Already the successor of this Pope will have to face the situation that churches are more and more empty, and parishes are without pastors, and communities are dissolving,” he is cited saying.
Fr Kung was at the Parliament of the World’s Religions to launch his manifesto for a global economic ethic, asserting that a global economy needs a global ethic in which a fair society and the environment accompany profits in a triple bottom line for companies.
“Laws are not enough,” he told the gathering. “You need the political will to fight corruption, greed and aggrandisement. But the political will is often weak because it is not accompanied by ethical will.”
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