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Debate between German cardinal, Father Kung to highlight assembly

COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) -- A scheduled debate between German Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz and dissident Swiss theologian Father Hans Kung will be among the highlights of a five-day Catholic assembly scheduled for June. Cardinal Lehmann, chairman of the German bishops' conference, and Father Kung, who was stripped of his teaching rights at Catholic universities by the Vatican in 1979, were to debate the Second Vatican Council document "Lumen Gentium," with which they were both closely involved. Some 15,000 mainly Catholic participants are expected to gather in Ulm for the June 16-20 Katholikentag, or Catholic Church assembly. Its theme is "Living From the Power of God." Theodor Bolzenius, spokesman for the assembly, said the event will send the message that society must do all it can to preserve life, from conception to death.

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