Gerhard Dane

Gerhard Dane (born March 3, 1942 in Leverkusen ) is a German Catholic clergyman and book author.

Life

Gerhard Dane grew up with his two sisters near the Bayer factory in Leverkusen . After graduating from high school, he studied theology in Bonn and Freiburg with Joseph Ratzinger, among others . Shortly after the end of the Second Vatican Council , after two years in the seminary, he was ordained a priest on January 27, 1967 by Cardinal Joseph Frings . After that he was chaplain for four years both in Cologne-Buchforst and in the Agnes Church on Ebertplatz . From 1975 he was pastor in Cologne-Worringen until he was transferred to Kerpen in 1993 . Before his transfer, however, he spent three months at the Sea of ​​Galilee and in Jerusalem in the Holy Land. On February 19, 1994 he was appointed district dean of the Erftkreis by the Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Cardinal Meisner . He was also chairman of the Caritas association for the Rhein-Erft district. In 2005 he experienced the World Youth Day in Cologne as the pastor of Marienfeld .

In 2006 he left the office of district dean and has been parish vicar in Bedburg-Kaster ever since . He is also the chairman of the Holy Land Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne .

In May 2018, as a pastor in the city of Bedburg, Dane endorsed the statements of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and drew a parallel between "Communion and Communism". He considered the terms Catholicism and Communism to be dangerous because they expressed that no other attitude should apply.

Publications

• Where Jesus lived (children's book; Don Bosco Verlag 2008)
• You can meet God in the garden (Don Bosco Verlag 2010)
• We want to sing to you - 52 short choir prayers (Musikverlag Butz)
• How people get healed - encounters with Jesus the pastor (Kösel Verlag 1995)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Dane: Communion and Communism. Bedburg Catholic Community, accessed May 7, 2018 .