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| Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:05 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Author Syed Hussein Al-Attas who was detained this morning while selling his book, said to have insulted the Sultan of Johor, at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), the venue of the 66th Umno General Assembly, was later freed on bail. Dang Wangi police chief, ACP Zainuddin Ahmad said the author, also known as Pak Habib, 71, was arrested at 11am and taken to the police operations room at PWTC for his statement to be taken. "We freed him on bail at 4pm," he said when contacted by Bernama. Police also seized 13 books written by Pak Habib, who is also the father of blogger and paranormal practitioner Syed Abdullah or Uncle Seekers, who, prior to this, was detained by police for allegedly slandering the Sultan of Johor on his blog www.uncleseekers.blogspot.com. Zainuddin said police were investigating the case under Section 4(1)(C) of the Sedition Act 1948 and Section 502 of the Penal Code for distributing printed materials which were defamatory in nature. "Whatever action will be taken after the investigation into the content of the book he wrote is completed," he said. — Bernama |
| Vatican disciplines Austrian dissident priest Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:42 AM PST  Pope Benedict XVI greets new Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Nigeria (L) during a special audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican November 26, 2012. — Reuters pic The Vatican said today it had stripped Father Helmut Schueller of the right to use title monsignor and said he also was no longer a "Chaplain of His Holiness". Schueller remains a priest. Schueller, a former deputy to Vienna's archbishop, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, had been given the honorary title in his capacity as head of the Austrian branch of the Catholic charity group Caritas. Schueller is head of the group "Call to Disobedience", which has broad public backing in opinion polls and says it represents about 10 per cent of the Austrian clergy. Nearly 150,000 Austrians left the Church in 2011-2012, many in reaction to sexual abuse scandals. The group wants Church rules changed so that priests can marry and women can become priests. It has said it will break Church rules by giving communion to Protestants and divorced Catholics who remarry. Schueller told Austrian media that the Vatican decision had not shaken his principles. Reformist Austrian Catholics have for decades challenged the conservative policies of Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, creating protest movements and advocating changes the Vatican refuses to make. Schueller has met like-minded clergy in Austria and abroad since launching the "Call to Disobedience" group. Catholic reform groups in Germany, Ireland and the United States have made similar demands from the Church. The Catholic Church does not allow priests to marry and teaches that it has no authority to allow women to become priests because Jesus willingly chose only men as his apostles when he instituted the priesthood at the Last Supper. Proponents of a female priesthood say Jesus was only adhering to the social norms of his times. Last week, the Vatican disciplined another priest who advocated women's ordination. Father Ray Bourgeois, an American of the Maryknoll religious order, was kicked out of the priesthood and the order by the Vatican's doctrinal department, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Last year, Bourgeois, who had been a priest for 40 years, was among a group of Roman Catholic activists detained by Italian police after they tried to deliver a petition to the Vatican in favour of a female priesthood. Benedict, who for decades before his 2005 election as pope was the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer, directly denounced disobedient priests last April, saying it was not the right path to renewal in the Church. — Reuters |
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