Andreas Hönisch

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Father Andreas Hönisch SJM (born October 3, 1930 in Habelschwerdt in Lower Silesia ; † January 25, 2008 in Blindenmarkt in Lower Austria ) was a Catholic clergyman from the County of Glatz . He was a co-founder of the Catholic Scouting Society of Europe in Germany and Austria and founder of the Order of Servants of Jesus and Mary ("Servi Jesu et Mariae [SJM]").

Life

Hönisch was born in Habelschwerdt in Silesia, today's Polish Bystrzyca Kłodzka. After being expelled after World War II, he graduated from the Jesuit Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg. In 1952 he joined the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on Jakobsberg near Bingen am Rhein and in 1954 moved to Tisis near Feldkirch.

From late 1954 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy . Between 1957 and 1960 he learned languages ​​in Manila , Philippines, and in Yokosuka , Japan. At the Jesuit Sophia University in Kojimachi in Tokyo he was briefly a lecturer in English and German. From 1960 to 1964 he studied theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. In 1963 he was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Berlin, Archbishop Alfred Bengsch . After his Jesuit tertiary degree in 1964/1965 in Paray-le-Monial , he became a youth minister and religion teacher in Berlin. From 1966 to 1977 he was active in pastoral care in Gießen , where he also looked after groups of the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG).

In 1976, together with Günther Walter, Hönisch founded the Catholic Scouting Society of Europe (KPE), which brought together groups that did not agree with the programmatic innovations within the DPSG in the 1970s. From the time the KPE was founded, he was also its federal curate until his death . According to his own information from 1986, he sent numerous young people who were striving for priestly ordination to the Engelwerk . His community of Canon Regulars of the Holy Cross was the only order he could recommend to his scouts.

Although the KPE was founded with the consent of the Jesuit Order, a later Provincial Hönisch forbade any work in the KPE. He refused (according to his own statements after consulting Cardinal Ratzinger ) to give up the work in the KPE and was expelled from the Society of Jesus for disobedience. Bishop Josef Stimpfle incardinated him as a secular priest in the diocese of Augsburg.

At the end of the 1980s, several members of the KPE who wanted to become religious priests approached Hönisch with the request to found a new religious community. He first tried to get her to join other orders, and for this purpose even invited members of other religious orders to performances. However, since the future priests could not be dissuaded from their plan, the bi-ritualistic "Servi Jesu et Mariae (SJM)" were founded two years after Hönisch had consulted with the rector of the Engelwerk University , Ingo Dollinger , in Mussenhausen in 1988 , commonly known as Andreas Hönisch's work is considered. The re-establishment took place with the consent of the Bishop of Augsburg , Josef Stimpfle.

His successor Viktor Josef Dammertz announced that the SJM would not use the monastery in Mussenhausen. In 1995 the company moved to Blindenmarkt in the Melk district of Austria. Contrary to what is often claimed, there was never a pastoral care ban in the diocese of Augsburg, neither for Father Hönisch nor for the SJM. The Ecclesia Dei Commission recognized it as a congregation of papal law in 1994. Today the order is active in Germany and Austria, also in Kazakhstan, Albania, Romania, Ukraine and France. In 2001, Hönisch distanced himself from the alleged apparitions of Mary in the pilgrimage site of Međugorje , which he had previously considered credible.

In 2004 two groups and three members of the Austrian KPE federal leadership (among them their curate Martin Leitner) left the association there because, in their opinion, Hönisch had tried to gain greater influence in the KPE-Ö. Leitner also criticized Hönisch's proximity to the Engelwerk. The part of the federal leadership close to Hönisch remained in office. In contrast to Leitner, Hönisch stated that he had no knowledge of allegations that would lead to criminal consequences against SJM members; he also denied knowledge of a negative mention of the KPE and SJM in the sect department of the Archdiocese of Vienna .

In autumn 2007 he expressed the conspiracy theory that the goal of Freemasonry was world domination and that the increasing globalization tendencies in politics of our day were largely carried out by the Masonic lodges .

Until his unexpected death he remained the superior general of the religious order he had founded. Their secretariat in the Auhof in Blindenmarkt is busy building an archive about his life and work and collects material from and about Hönisch.

Fonts

  • The boy from the other country . Cassianeum, Donauwörth 1956.
  • The secret of the Ahornallee . Alsatia publishing house 1959, new edition: Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1993, ISBN 3-887780-13-2 .
  • You weren't alone . Waldstatt Verlag, Einsiedeln 1960.
  • Traces to the goal (with Günther Walter and Edeltraut Wessler). 1997, ISBN 3932426622
  • Dear friends of the Scouts of Mary . SJM-Verlag, Meckenheim 2001, ISBN 3-932426-20-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heiner Boberski : The angel factory. A secret society in the Catholic Church? Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1990, ISBN 9783701307814 . Page 253
  2. ^ Andreas Hönisch: Corrections
  3. ^ Paul Schindele: From the growth of a small plant ( Memento from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Call of the King , 2nd quarter 2002
  4. ↑ How the SJM was founded ( Memento from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Aichacher Nachrichten : “Declaration on SJM Pastoral Care. Diocese of Augsburg takes a position ”, October 15, 2002
  6. ↑ Pur magazine publishes criticism of Andreas Hönisch , kath.net , February 15, 2008
  7. ↑ Andreas Hönisch: The Church's Dealing with Private Revelations . In: The Call of the King , 4th Quarter 2004, pp. 2f, OCLC 85720365
  8. ↑ KPE-Webmaster makes serious accusations against SJM and Hönisch. ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) kath.net from January 7, 2005
  9. ↑ No 'scout peace' according to Hönisch's statement. ( Memento from November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) kath.net from January 11, 2005
  10. ↑ Differences within the KPE Austria. Community of St. Joseph: stjosef.at (January 10, 2005), archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 14, 2008 .
  11. ^ Austrian Girl Scouts protect P. Hönisch. ( Memento from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) kath.net from January 10, 2005
  12. ^ Andreas Hönisch: Fatima 2007. ( Memento from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Pathfinder Mariens 2007/4, p. 2
  13. ^ Father Andreas Hönisch passed away. ubonse.de, quoted from kreuz.net from January 25, 2008
  14. ^ Paul Schindele: On our own behalf. Father Andreas Hönisch's archive is under construction. ( Memento of March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) The Call of the King, 4th quarter 2016, page 29
personal data
SURNAME Hönisch, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hönisch, Andreas SJM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic clergyman, founder of the order Servants of Jesus and Mary
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Habelschwerdt in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2008
Place of death Blind market in Lower Austria