After three weeks the first organized response to the Correctio filialis has appeared: a Laudatio published on the web, signed by a group of priests and intellectuals prevalently from the Austrian-German domain. (http://www.pro-pope-francis.com/).
Who are the signatories of the Laudatio? One of them, the German Monsignor Fritz Lobinger, Bishop emeritus of Aliwal (South Africa), is the “father” of the expression “community priesthood” which he explained in the book Team of Elders. Moving beyond Viri probati (2007), wherein he hopes for an introduction in the Church of two types of priests, diocesan priests and those of the community; the former full-time celibates and the latter, married with a family, at the disposition of the community where they live and work...
Professor Herman NuDix of Continuity College in Rome
assures ABS in an email:
Just because a person signs a correction to a correction does not mean that person is correct because within each correction there are both positive and negative elements that are, by their very nature (fish gotta fly, birds gotta swim) correctable. It is only if one is able to maintain an irenic - not to stay ironic - view of these captious questions that one is able to attend lavish dinner parties with those who are both sappers or supporters of the surprising idea that The Holy Ghost brings with Him the very surprises we need at this time, in this space, and we all know, don't we, that space is lesser than time, and all of your base doctrines are belong to us. Amen?