Comment on Hans Kung's letter

(Sorry por el idioma. Es un comentario que traté de subir a un diario digital extranjero, pero pude hacerlo porque estaba cerrado el plazo para hacer comentarios... por eso lo publico acá, por si alguien quiere leerlo ;-) )

Probably Mr. Kung had good intentions when he wrote his public letter. However, it’s a pity that he uses this moment of enormous grief for us all, to instruct us in his personal views of the “church” (he spells it with a lowercase C, maybe believing that the Church is a human institution, and not the Body of Christ, as Saint Paul and the constant magisterium teaches us). Since I am not a theologian, I have some questions for Mr. Kung:

-What is his problem with Pope Pius XII, doesn’t he know that after the war the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and Golda Meir, among others, thanked him for helping the Jews during the Nazi times?

-Doesn’t he distinguish the atrocities committed against the indigenous people of America by the conquistadors, from the good done to them by teaching them the true faith? (me being a South American, I am very grateful with the evangelization)

-Regarding stem cells studies, doesn’t he know that many times the experiments are done using embryos? Doesn’t he believe that life begins with conception?

-When he speaks about the Second Vatican Council (VCII), why does he forget many statements of it, like the one which says that Latin is the official language of the Church, or that the organ is its official musical instrument?

-Why doesn’t he take the same open and charitable stance that he takes with our brothers the Protestants with the Fraternity of St. Pious X?

-When he speaks about the lack of vocations, doesn’t he know that this problem started with the misinterpretations of the Second Vatican Council? (in case he doesn’t know: Apparently Maynooth’s Seminary has currently the largest number of vocations since ten years ago)

-When he attributes the resignation of thousands of priests’ since the VCII to the Council’s confirmation of the priestly celibacy, doesn’t he recon that this requirement existed way before it? Wouldn’t it be more logical to assume that they were due to the disorders that some interpretations of CVII brought to life?

-Regarding the alleged relation between abuses and celibacy, isn’t he aware that most of the abuse cases come from the fathers of children or their mothers partners (who happen to be sexually active)?

-Mr. Kung acknowledges in his letter that he has sketched new programs of Church reform both before and after the VCII. Is he using the current state of affairs to advance his own programs?

-When he refers to the loss of credibility of the Church, is he basing this assertion in some serious survey or in the sayings of Richard Dawkins and Sinead O’Connor?

For those interested, the following site might help them to face this bad times: http://www.mercatornet.com/justb16

Despite the answers to these questions, I pray to God that I may respond faithfully to the demands of my Christian vocation, especially to console Him in this moment, in which He is in pain because of both the atrocious sins committed by the ones He had chosen and the unmerciful attacks that He is suffering in his body: The Holy Catholic Church.