Gisela Forster

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Gisela Forster (born March 27, 1946 in Munich ) is a priestess of the Free Catholic Church and an advocate of the women's priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and is commonly regarded as a vagabond Bishop.

education

Gisela Forster's parents came from Bavaria and Hungary . She attended the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium in Munich-Pasing and studied art, architecture, urban planning, philosophy and theology after graduating from high school. She became a senior lecturer and graduate engineer at the Technical University of Munich . She wrote her dissertation in philosophy and art.

From 1972 to 1989 she taught at the Benedictine Schäftlarn grammar school . In 1989 she separated from school because she married Anselm Forster, who was director of the grammar school from 1966 to 1989. Anselm and Gisela Forster have two children: Thomas Johannes Forster and Gabriele Forster. Gisela Forster has been involved in several church grassroots groups since 1980 , was co-founder of the initiative group of women affected by celibacy and the group Maria von Magdala, priesthood for women . In 1989, she was for Alliance 90 / The Greens in the council of the district Starnberg chosen and practiced until 2002 the office of the County Council faction chairman from. She works as an art teacher at a private school in Munich.

Ordination as a priestess

In 1998 Forster joined the movement “Consecrations for women in the rk church”, which, contrary to the Roman Catholic Church , advocates the ordination of women . It builds on the Council submissions on Vatican II by Ida Raming and Gertrud Heinzelmann from 1962. The movement sees itself as an internal church movement: Members must belong to the Roman Catholic Church and must not have resigned. The group wants to continue the discussion on the exclusion of women from all ordination offices, which Pope John Paul II confirmed in his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis , and to obtain the admission of women to the office of Roman Catholic priestess.

In 2002, Gisela Forster was ordained a priestess by the Free Catholic Bishop Rómolo Antonio Braschi, together with other women on a ship on the Danube . Since the ordination of women according to Roman Catholic church law is not only ineffective, but also a serious sin, a few days later she received an admonition ( monitum ) and after a few weeks the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared her excommunication .

Controversy over Braschi

Proponents of Forster's ordination claim that Rómolo Antonio Braschi, who carried out the ordination in 2002, was validly ordained a Roman Catholic priest and (by Bishop Jerónimo Podestá) a bishop. According to canon law , the possibility of giving the sacrament of ordination lies with the Catholic bishops , even if they are under church punishment. According to information, Braschi was ordained bishop by the deceased Bishop Jerónimo Podestá , so that Braschi could validly ordain priests. However, the episcopal ordination of Braschis is expressly denied by the widow Podestás. As evidence of the consecration, there is (in addition to the testimony of Romulo Braschi himself) a notarial confirmation from 4 witnesses who want to be present at the episcopal ordination.

Statement by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

“The so-called 'ordination of priests' is a dubious sect spectacle and has the characteristics of an absurd theater. None of this has anything to do with the Roman Catholic Church. ”As regards Braschi's alleged status as a Catholic bishop, it is also stated that he bears the title“ Monsignor ”and functions as“ Archbishop for Munich, Zurich, Buenos Aires and San Salvador de Bahia ”for a“ Catholic-Apostolic Charismatic Church of Jesus King ”, which he co-founded in the 1970s and expressly designated as“ non-Roman ”.

Consecration as bishop

On June 27, 2003 Forster announced that he had meanwhile been secretly ordained a bishop. Like ordination to the priesthood, episcopal ordination of women is not recognized by the Vatican.

Forster then worked together with Ida Raming and Patricia Fresen in several ordinations of priests according to the Roman Catholic rite, such as the ordination

  • the first French woman : Geneviève Benney in Lyon 2005
  • of the first Canadian and American women in Gananoque 2005: Michele Birch-Connery, Victoria Rue, Jean Marchant and Marie David
  • by Monika Wyss in Switzerland 2006, together with Regina Nikolosi and Jane Via (the first priestess in Switzerland, however, is the Christian Catholic Denise Wyss , who was ordained in 2000).
  • of the first women in the United States in Pittsburgh 2006: Joan Houk, Kathy Vandenberg, Kathleen Kunster, Bridget Mary Meehan, Roberta Meehan, Eileen DiFranco, Olivia Doko and Dana Reynolds

Works

  • Karin Jäckel, Gisela Forster: Because women should be silent in church . Bastei Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-404-61552-2 .
  • Werner Ertel, Gisela Forster: We are priestesses . Patmos Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-491-70363-8 .
  • Gisela Forster: Together stronger than the tumor . Denkbieverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939936-01-5 .
  • Gisela Forster: Thoughts are like embers in the wind. Poems . Denkbieverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939936-04-6 .
  • Gisela Forster: Heinrich Kohl, Hitler my idol and downfall . Denkbieverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939936-05-3 .
  • Gisela Forster: Dr. Patricia Fresen - Commitment to humanity and equality . Denkbieverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-939936-16-9 .

See also

Movies

  • "Lifelines" of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the initiative group of women affected by celibacy. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Website “Maria von Magdala. Initiative Equal Rights for Women in the Church ” (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gisela Forster. Starnberg District Office, July 26, 1997, accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Source Virtual Diözese- bishops
  5. ^ In: KIRCHE-IN , ecclesiastical magazine from Austria by Pastor Rudolf Schermann.
  6. ^ Clelia Luro de Podestá: "Episcopal ordination" Romulo Braschis by Bishop Jeronimo Podestá? Desmenti. (No longer available online.) Ecumenical Network “Initiative Church from Below” (IKvu) , June 24, 2002, archived from the original on March 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2018 (Spanish, German, denials of episcopal ordination). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alt.ikvu.de
  7. ↑ TV interview with the Austrian journalist Werner Ertel (ORF Austria)
  8. ↑ Winfried Röhmel: Statement by a main protagonist in the so-called "ordination of priests" confirms information from the Archbishop's Ordinariate in Munich about a sectarian spectacle. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, June 12, 2002, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; accessed on June 11, 2018 .
  9. ^ Source Virtual Diocese
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergy, advocate of the ordination of women in the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich