Leading critic of Heiligenkreuz advocates legal abortion and women's ordination
Salzburg moral theologian Walser advocates legal abortion and women's ordination
The Austrian time limit regulation is a 'hard-fought ethical compromise solution that is no longer seriously questioned by anyone today.' Women's ordination requires 'creative, disobedient, and self-responsible action.'
Univ. Professor Doctor Angelika Walser, Professor of Moral Theology and Spiritual Theology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, in a letter she wrote together with theologian Doctor Sigrid Rettenbacher to the Austrian Bishops' Conference, accused the Heiligenkreuz Cistercian Father Dr. Edmund Waldstein of being part of anti-democratic "right-wing Christian networks" and a "neo-integralist." In the letter, Waldstein's work was even linked to the harassment of female theologians at Austrian faculties. The Heiligenkreuz theologian has responded to these allegations on his blog.
Research by kath.net has revealed that Walser has publicly advocated positions that are incompatible with the doctrine of the Catholic Church. This primarily concerns the protection of life from conception, but also the ordination of women.
In an article for the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper on September 22, 2022, Walser accuses the Catholic Church of focusing solely on the embryo's right to life when protecting life. Instead, the moral theologian calls for an "alternative approach by the Catholic Church to protecting life that finally recognizes women's comprehensive sexual self-responsibility."
In an article dated March 6, 2017, on katholisch.at, the official website of the Catholic Church in Austria, Walser defends the current time limit regulation in Austria as a "hard-fought ethical compromise solution that is no longer seriously questioned by anyone today and that justifiably leaves the final decision-making authority over their own bodies to women themselves." No woman could have any interest in weakening the existing regulation, she claims.
In the weekly newspaper Die Furche on February 26, 2020, Walser critically examined Pope Francis's image of women, as expressed in the letter "Querida Amazonia." She expressed her disappointment that Pope Francis has not introduced the ordination of women – in accordance with the teachings of the Church – and is de facto calling for disobedience.
"The solutions obviously don't come from Rome, nor from prayer alone. Creative, disobedient, and self-responsible action is required in the local church, appealing to one's own conscience and with the courage of desperation," she writes. "An ever-increasing number of women no longer grant this uthority to the official representatives of the Catholic Church and are increasingly seeking their own ways to live their Christianity outside the Catholic Church or to make corresponding offers themselves," she continues.
From this, she draws the following conclusion: "Who could seriously prevent young Catholic women from taking the step toward independence as deacons or priests?"
Kath.net has asked Archbishop Lackner and the Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg for a statement on Prof. Walser's positions, but has not received a response.
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