62nd German Catholic Day
The 62nd German Catholic Day took place from August 27th to 30th, 1922 in Munich . One of the main focuses of the Katholikentag was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Weimar Republic .
In the opening speech, Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber linked the November Revolution of 1918 and the subsequent founding of the Weimar Republic with perjury and high treason : The revolution was perjury and high treason, remains hereditary in history and marked with the mark of Cain. Even if the coup brought a few successes, if it opened up the path to higher offices for those who profess the Catholic faith far more than before - a moral character does not value success, an offense must not be canonized because of its success . In this speech he demanded that public life should also be organized according to God's laws.
The question of the legitimacy of the Weimar Republic led to a strong dispute between Faulhaber and the incumbent President of the Catholic Congress, Konrad Adenauer . The latter replied to the cardinal in his closing address: Where there is a lot of light, there is also a lot of shadow. It is my duty to speak of this shadow too. Here and there utterances have been made which can be explained by conditions of a local nature, but which the German Catholics as a whole do not support.
literature
- Klaus Fitschen : Michael von Faulhaber. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Volume 24: Supplements XI. Bautz, Herzberg u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 602-615.
- Ulrich von Hehl , Friedrich Kronenberg (ed.): Zeitzeichen. 150 years of the German Catholic Days 1848–1998 Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-506-74009-1 .
- Hugo Stehkämper : Konrad Adenauer as President of the Katholikentag 1922. Forms and limits of political freedom of choice in the Catholic area (= Adenauer Studies. 4 = Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Series B: Research. 21). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-7867-0625-5 .
Web links
- Historical lexicon of Bavaria
- Opening speech by Cardinal Faulhaber (PDF; 201 kB)
- Closing speech by Konrad Adenauer (PDF; 153 kB)
- Further information