99th German Catholic Day

“Night of Lights” at the 99th Catholic Day in Regensburg

The 99th German Catholic Day took place from May 28 to June 1, 2014 in Regensburg . The host was the diocese of Regensburg , which organizes the Catholic Day with the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) . The motto was “Building bridges with Christ”.

After 1849 and 1904, Regensburg was the meeting point of the lay meeting for the third time. A Catholic day was last held in Bavaria in 1984. On November 19, 2011, the general assembly of the ZdK in Bad Godesberg decided with an approval of 78.6 percent to accept the invitation of then Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller to hold the 99th Catholic Day in 2014 in Regensburg. The sponsoring association was founded in April 2012. The Katholikentag management was constituted directly after the 98th German Catholic Convention in Mannheim in July 2012, chaired by Alois Glück .

Around 50,000 participants came to Regensburg. They discussed, among others, the topics of celibacy , recognition of homosexual lifestyles and the admission of women to the office of priest .

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  Federal President Joachim Gauck opens the 99th German Catholic Day

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  Federal President Joachim Gauck with Bettina Schausten from ZDF

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  Church mile at the 99th Catholic Day, in the background the Regensburg Cathedral

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  During the opening of the Catholic Day on Domplatz

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  The then ZdK President Alois Glück

Web links

Commons : 99th Deutscher Katholikentag  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overview of the Catholic Day of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.zdk.de
2. ↑ www.mittelbayerische.de
3. ↑ Matthias Drobinski: watered and happy. sueddeutsche.de, June 1, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014
4. ↑ Susanne Beyer, Romain Leick: The immortal rumor. Der Spiegel, 24/2014 of June 7, 2014, pp. 58–65, here p. 60