Rudolf Schermann

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Rudolf Schermann (born March 18, 1932 in Samsun , Turkey ) is an Austrian clergyman and newspaper editor. From 1965 to 1993 he was pastor in Reisenberg and Seibersdorf in Lower Austria.

Pastor Rudolf Schermann is known for his critical stance within the Roman Catholic Church . On the occasion of two controversial bishop appointments in Austria, in 1987 he founded the left-wing Catholic magazine Kirche intern , which has been known as Kirche in since its distribution abroad .

Live and act

Rudolf Schermann, whose father is a Catholic Hungarian and whose mother is a Turkish Muslim , spent his school days in Hungary, where he also graduated . In Budapest and Győr studied Schermann theology in the years 1951 to 1956. In Győr he 1956 received his ordination.

During the popular uprising in 1956, Schermann fled to Austria, completed his studies with an Absolutorium at the University of Vienna and became a pastor in the Traiskirchen refugee camp .

At first he worked as a journalist and columnist for various newspapers and radio stations, such as Radio Free Europe in Munich and later for ORF . The newspapers he worked for were Profil , Die Furche, and Sundays Der Kurier . He wrote numerous publications under the pseudonym Gerd Hamburger .

In 1987 he founded the monthly independent, international, ecumenical news magazine Kirche intern , which was renamed to Kirche in in 2002 and was distributed throughout the German-speaking area. He has been the publisher and editor-in-chief from the start. He is also known through numerous television appearances.

In August 2020, after having recovered from three cancers, Schermann announced that he would be looking for a new editor-in-chief and investors for the magazine Kirche In and order his spiritual legacy.

Attitude to Freemasonry

In the spring of 2004, his magazine Kirche gave the priest Reinhard Knittel , consecrated by the Engelwerk , the opportunity to publish an article on Freemasonry in which the latter was portrayed as the daughter of Satan ; the Freemason Kurt Baresch was given the option of a replica at that time. In autumn 2005 the magazine assumed, without evidence submitted, the Rotary Club , the German Druid Order and the German education minister Annette Schavan one close to Freemasonry and accused the latter of "dubious shoulder to shoulder."

Attitude to sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church

He appeared again on the occasion of the abuse cases in the church .

Actions critical of the church

Schermann, as an opponent of celibacy , takes the position that priests do not lose their office even if they marry. To manifest this, in 2003 he invited former clergymen who were married to a mass, which he celebrated together with them. This mass was also recorded by ORF and excerpts from the program Report . On the basis of this mass celebration, Schermann received a canonical warning from Cardinal Schönborn . Schermann published this letter from the cardinal and responded with a quote from Joseph Ratzinger , the later Pope, in 1968: Above the Pope as an expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority stands one's own conscience, which must first of all be obeyed, if necessary also against the demands of ecclesiastical authority .

Quotes

One of his quotes was:

“Christianity is a circle with God at its center. We all, regardless of whether Pope, man or woman, are in the middle of it "

- December 1987

His curriculum vitae , which was quoted in the magazine Kirche In, was headed : " Who is Pastor Rudolf Schermann? An old boy at heart . Of course it wasn't always like that. "

Works

  • as Gert Hamburger :
    • Catholic priestly marriage or the death of a taboo , 1967 Rowohlt Verlag
    • The Beijing bomb , 1974 Seewald
    • Persecuted Christians , 1979
    • What the Church is Sick of , 1981 Econ
  • under his real name

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lithuanian religious and national heroine Nijole Sadūnaitė 70. Order online, 16. September 2008
  2. ↑ Magazine "Kirche In" before personnel realignment. kathpress from August 6, 2020
  3. ↑ Thomas Hofer : God's right church. Catholic fundamentalists on the rise . Ueberreuter , Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-8000-3675-4 , p. 214 .
  4. ↑ Reinhard Knittel: Christianity and Freemasonry? Incompatible! and Kurt Baresch: Christianity and Freemasonry: Not incompatible! Church In , April 2004, p. 18 f
  5. ↑ Georg Waldreich: Dubious shoulder closures. Kirche In, November 2004, p. 26 f
  6. ↑ Incredible, devastating, absurd! ( Memento of the original from January 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. as an example, the guest commentary in the Wiener Zeitung of March 24, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienerzeitung.at
  7. ^ Hermann Münzel: Canonical warning: The Viennese cardinal threatens - and is disarmed. ( Memento of July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) imprimatur January 2004, accessed on March 24, 2010
  8. ↑ http://www.kirche-in.at/ueber_kirche_in_biographie.php

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personal data
SURNAME Schermann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Samsun , Turkey