[Oe List ...] Hans Kung letter

[Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook]

Yes, thank you Frank for this stirring and inspiring letter. A challenge for
us all to break the silence and reform where ever we stand.

Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook

2010/4/23 <elliestock at aol.com>

> Thanks, Frank for forwarding the Hans Kung letter.
>
> Related to this, the question was asked about other bishops who may be in
> tune with this.  Through our Peru Partnership we work with Mons. Pedro
> Baretto, Archbishop of Huancayo Province who has been boldly standing up and
> speaking out against the egregious lead and other heavy metal contamination
> in La Oroya, Peru which affects the whole province adn the bread basket of
> Peru.  He has received hate mail and death threats.  He was (don't know if
> he still is) the president or chairperson of the social responsibility group
> (don't know exact name of group) of bishops in Peru.  How he relates to the
> hierarchy re ecclesiastical affairs, I don't know.
>
> A quote by Hans Kung I first saw about 30 years ago and rediscovered  a few
> weeks ago as I was cleaning out my files...
>
> *The common denominator of love of God and love of neighbor therefore is
> the abandonment of selfishness and the will to self-sacrifice.  Only when I
> no longer live for myself can I be quite open for God and unreservedly open
> for my fellow man whom God accepts just as he accepts me.  Loving my fellow
> man does not complete my task of loving God. I remain directly responsible
> to God and none of my fellow men can take this responsibility away from me.
> God however encounters me, not exclusively, but--since I am myself
> human--primarily in my fellow man and expects my self-surrender at that
> point.  He does not call me out of the clouds, nor merely indirectly in my
> conscience, but above all through my neighbor; a call which is never
> silenced, but reaches me afresh each in the midst of my ordinary secular
> routine.*
> **
> In honor of The Call which is never silenced; in honor of Hans Kung's Call
> which has not been silenced by G-O-D...and through which he continues to
> speak to us.
>
> Ellie Stock
>
>
>   Attached: forwarded and forwarded: a letter by Hans Kung on the (Roman)
> Catholic Church.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank Bremner
> =
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