Both Curran and Häring said later they were astonished when Ratzinger argued that, whatever the “fantasies” of some church scholars, the Vatican had the right to demand obedience from them on all controversial teachings, even those that had never been declared infallible. There could be no dissent on any significant doctrinal matter in which John Paul—and by extension, Ratzinger—had expressed an opinion. At heart, that meant the end of free speech for the world’s Catholic theologians.
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