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諸兄、諸姉、
International Movement ”We Are Church”(IMWAC)と言う 世界信徒の組織をご存知でしょうか。これは要するに教会の民主化を推し進める事を目的としている組織で、世界中に支部を持つかなり有力な(特に米国での）組織です。
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その主張は色々ありますが、まずは教会内での男女平等を説き、女性司祭の否定を決めている教会法を非難、その他、司祭の結婚の自由選択、離婚、再婚夫婦などへ聖体拝領解禁など主張しています。
いま彼らの主張の詳細をここでお報せしようとも、その是非を論じようとも思いません。いずれにせよそれらの多くは現教会、バティカンの公的立場を非難、これに反するものです。
詳細をお知りになりたい方は、この投稿の終りに載っている英文をお読みください。
今小生が問題としているのは、1996年に発足したこの反バティカン組織に、正平協の事務局長木邑が、正平協の名において加盟していることです。
正平協は痩せても枯れても日本司教団に属する正式部局です。それがこの組織に加盟していると言うことは、日本司教団が加盟していることになるのです。
その後、正平協がこのＷＡＣから脱退したと言う話しは聞いていません。
ということは日本の司教さんたちは，知ってか知らずか、ＷＡＣに同調、反バティカンの立場をとっていることになるのです。
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3.3 Among the essential treasures of human rights is the right of women to full equality in society and Church. For those baptized in the name of Jesus, "there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slave and free, between men and women" (Gal. 3:28). No Scripture passage declares baptized women unworthy of the Church´s ordained ministries. There can be no such position in the teachings of the Church. Church structures must involve full participation of men and women. The cause of women is the cause of humankind.
3.4 Current Canon Law still contains decrees that are in direct contradiction to human rights. As members of the laity women experience double discrimination (Canon 230). There is no separation of powers: Bishops simultaneously hold legislative, executive, and judiciary power (Canon 391). Parents who allow their children to be baptized or brought up as non-Catholics and people who refuse blind obedience to their Bishop or Pope are threatened with penalties (Canon 1366). Sexual continence, described as a "special divine charism," is made a "permanent" obligation for all members of the clergy ordained in the Western Rite.
3.5 We, the Catholic Church, believe it is time for the Holy See to reverse their disgraceful refusal to sign the European Convention on Human Rights. It must demonstrate its full and unequivocal support for women’s equal rights within the Church itself – not merely in words, but in actions.
We also feel compelled to work to abolish the death penalty in all countries of the world.
Within the Catholic Church, those who seek new ways of spreading the Gospel and of dialogue with other religions and the world, and who support an extensive reform of the Roman Catholic Church, should no longer be repressed and antagonized. We ask that, in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, a season of creative dialogue is launched, without exclusions or excommunications.
The year 2000 is the occasion for initiating bold changes in ecclesial structures and in some Papal decisions, which cause so much suffering to many Christians (e.g., not allowing those belonging to a diocese to choose their Pastors; forbidding contraception; denying the Eucharist to divorced and remarried people; forcing priests to remain single; rejecting the full equality of women and men in ordained ministries; disregarding the rights of homosexual people; forbidding the interconfessional Eucharist of sisters and brothers of different Christian Churches; refusing the reintegration of married priests).
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