Florian Kolfhaus

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Florian Kolfhaus (* 1974 in Straubing ) is a German Roman Catholic priest , diplomat and author .

Life

Kolfhaus grew up in Straubing and attended grammar school there. As a teenager he was an altar boy and group leader as well as a member of the board of the Stadtjugendring Straubing. He volunteered for many years in the St. Wolfgang nursing home for mentally handicapped children. Kolfhaus successfully participated in national and international tournaments in shorthand until he graduated from high school . The construction of the Fatima chapel on Steinberg near Thiersheim goes back to his initiative in 2003. It was inaugurated on October 1, 2005 and is now a popular pilgrimage destination in the surrounding parishes.

Kolfhaus is a long-time member of the Catholic Scouting Association of Europe (KPE), in which he was a group leader. On October 25, 1998, he was awarded one of the KPE's highest honors, the Woodbadge for the Boy Scout level . On 15 September 2000 he was awarded by the St. Pölten diocesan Bishop Kurt Krenn the priesthood . At that time he was a member of the Order of the Servants of Jesus and Mary , which he left immediately afterwards to move to the Diocese of Regensburg .

On July 19, 2011, Kolfhaus was appointed chaplain to His Holiness ( Monsignore ). He is an associate member of the International Marian Pontifical Academy (PAMI) based in Rome . From 2004 to 2006 Kolfhaus went through the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy . This was followed by activities in the nunciature in Bogotà ( Colombia ) and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . Kolfhaus was at the Pontifical University Gregoriana in 2006 in the trade dogma with an examination of key texts of Vatican II PhD . His dissertation entitled Pastoral Doctrinal Proclamation. Basic motif of the Second Vatican Council. Research on "Unitatis Redintegratio", "Dignitatis Humanae" and "Nostra Aetate" was supervised by the Jesuit Karl Josef Becker as doctoral supervisor. He also obtained a licentiate in canon law .

From 2009 Kolfhaus worked in the Second Section of the State Secretariat of the Vatican, where he was responsible, among other things, for contact with international authorities such as the OSCE , NATO and WHO . A particular focus of his work was the issue of discrimination against Christians in Europe. As a pastor he was in charge of the Capitolina , a Catholic student union . At least since September 2017 he has been a Nuntiaturrat the Apostolic Nunciature in Prague operates.

Theological positions

In his dissertation , Kolfhaus examines various interpretive approaches to the texts of the Second Vatican Council , in particular with regard to the three decrees on ecumenism ( Unitatis Redintegratio ) , religious freedom ( Dignitatis Humanae ) and the relationship of the church to other religions ( Nostra Aetate ). In the course of his analysis of the texts, Kolfhaus developed the theory that the council exercised its teaching authority in the mode of a munus praedicandi , which - at least in the three decrees examined - deliberately dispensed with definitive teaching decisions and instead intended instructions for the practice of church life. This new style of munus praedicandi appears in the claim of the authentic teaching authority of an ecumenical council, so it cannot simply be devalued with the catchphrase “pastoral council”. Nevertheless, the new type of formulation is different from the classic mode of conciliar texts, which the author calls munus determinandi . "The lack of a theological term that perfects the systematic presentation of the various forms of exercise of the Magisterium often provokes superficial assessments of the council or errors in ideological positions that the council absolutely or completely reject in its doctrinal statements," said Kolfhaus. Such misunderstandings of “liberal or traditionalist narrowing” must absolutely be overcome in the reception of the Council texts.

On the question of the end of life of Mary , the mother of Jesus, Kolfhaus advocates the thesis that she completed her earthly life without suffering death and was taken up alive into heaven. With this position he is in opposition to the majority opinion in Mariology , which assumes a death of Mary. Liturgically, Mary's death is firmly anchored in the tradition of the Church under the title " Dormition of Mary " ( dormition ), especially in the Orthodox Church . The Church Magisterium, however, left this question open in the dogmatic formulation of the bodily acceptance of Mary into heaven . Kolfhaus has summarized the arguments for his position in the book Stronger than Death: Why Maria Did Not Die .

Fonts

  • Dissertation: Pastoral teaching. Basic motif of the Second Vatican Council. Studies on "Unitatis Redintegratio", "Dignitatis Humanae" and "Nostra Aetate" (= Theologia mundi ex urbe 2) , Lit Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10628-5 .
  • Via Dolorosa - The Way of the Cross of Christ , Dominus Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-940879-20-2 .
  • Operating instructions love: 100 practical tips for more love in life, as a co-author together with Claudia Bayerl, Irene and Thomas Frei, Eric Hegmann, Susanne Hühn, Eva-Maria Ruhland, Ulrike and Irene Tourneur, and Maren Stephan, Textakademie 2012, ISBN 9783000396229 .
  • Praying the Way of the Cross - On the way on the Via Dolorosa , Dominus Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-940879-28-8 .
  • All yours, Maria - Twelve days to prepare for the consecration to the Mother of God and to deepen the spiritual life according to the writings of St. Ludwig Maria Grignion von Montfort , Dominus Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-940879-30-1 .
  • The Rosary - Theology on your knees , Dominus Verlag 2014 ISBN 978-3-940-879356 .
  • The awakened dormouse: A play by Florian Kolfhaus based on the novel of the same name by Adalbert Seipolt , fe-Medienverlag 2014, ISBN 978-3863571047 .
  • Stronger than Death - Why Maria Didn't Die , Media Maria Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-9454012-0-0 .
  • Fire and Flame in the Ice Age: 24 Comments on How Catholics Can Burn for Faith Again , Christiana Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3717112808 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Fatima Chapel. www.fichtelgebirge-oberfranken.de, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ M. Mehrle: Festive mass at the Fatima chapel. www.blickpunkt-verlag.de, accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Federal Secretariat informs . In: The track . No. 88 , 1997, pp. 47 .
  4. ↑ Catholic Scouts of Europe (Ed.): The Federal Secretariat informs . The track, no. 94 , 1999, pp. 40 .
  5. ^ Vatican: Regensburg priest appointed to the State Secretariat. August 8, 2009, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Federal Secretariat informs . In: The track . No. 99 , 2000, pp. 68 .
  7. ^ The daily mail: Personal details. July 21, 2007, accessed on December 2, 2019 (German).
  8. ^ Annuario Pontificio . Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2018, p. 2069 .
  9. ↑ Florian Kolfhaus: The Rosary - Theology on my knees . Dominus Verlag, Augsburg, ISBN 978-3-940879-35-6 , pp. 130 .
  10. ↑ Vatican: Regensburg priest appointed to State Secretariat August 8, 2009
  11. ↑ Manfred Hauke: Introduction to the article on the “pastoral” teaching post of the Second Vatican Council. Observations on a review by Fr. Andreas Batlogg SJ . In: Theological . tape 43 , 2013, p. 15 .
  12. ↑ Monsignor Dr. Florian Kolfhaus | Gospel | DOMRADIO.DE - Catholic News. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  13. ^ List of Participants. 25th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum “Greening the Economy and Building Partnerships for Security in the OSCE Region”. OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, September 8, 2017, p. 5 , accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  14. ^ Florian Kolfhaus: Pastoral proclamation of teaching. Basic motif of the Second Vatican Council. Studies on "Unitatis Redintegratio", "Dignitatis Humanae" and "Nostra Aetate" (Theologiea mundi ex urbe, Volume 2) . LIT-Verlag, Berlin, p. 227-228 .
  15. ↑ Florian Kolfhaus: Stronger than death - why Maria did not die . Media Maria Verlag, Illertissen, ISBN 978-3-945401-20-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Kolfhaus, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest, diplomat and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing