Walter Brandmüller

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Walter Cardinal Brandmüller (born January 5, 1929 in Ansbach ) is a German theologian , church historian and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church . He was president of the Pontifical Committee on History from 1998 to 2009 .

Life

Brandmüller was born in 1929 into an officer's family in Ansbach . He was baptized Protestant (his father was a Catholic, his mother a Protestant), but converted to Catholicism at an early age. In 1948 he passed the Abitur examination at the Carolinum grammar school and then studied Catholic theology. He received on 26 July 1953 in Bamberg by Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb the priesthood . He then worked as a chaplain in Kronach and the Bamberg parish of St. Martin . It was in 1963 - to a doctoral program at Hermann Tüchle to which he Archbishop Josef Schneider was released - at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the revival of Catholic communities in the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth doctorate . At the same place it was in 1967 with a dissertation on the Council of Pavia-Siena also habilitated . On October 30, 1969, he was appointed professor at what was then the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen . After its dissolution, the university professor came to Augsburg on October 7, 1970, where he taught as a full professor for modern and medieval church history at the University of Augsburg until his retirement in 1997 . During this time he was in charge of the parish of the Assumption in Walleshausen .

Since his habilitation, the focus of his academic work has been on the history of the councils . Brandmüller is co-founder and publisher of the journal Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum (Paderborn, since 1969, with a few supplements) and the series of the history of the Council (2 series, since 1979, so far 37 volumes). The festschrift dedicated to him is also under this title. He also published the Handbook of Bavarian Church History (St. Ottilien, 1991–1999, 3 volumes).

He was a member of the Pontifical Commission of Historical Sciences since 1981, President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Studies in Rome since 1998 and President of the International Commission for Comparative Church History from 1998 to 2006.

In these positions he coordinated the international scientific cooperation between historians and academies of science that deal with topics related to church history. The focus was on the case of Galileo Galilei as well as the Council of Constance and the First Vatican Council . Brandmüller gave lectures at the Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ("Academy of the Lynx") in Rome and at the German Historical Institute in Paris. In 2009 he went into retirement and handed over office at the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences PCSS to Bernard Ardura .

priest

Walter Brandmüller received on July 26 in 1953 by Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

In 1981 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilian von Fürstenberg and invested in Cologne Cathedral on November 14, 1981 by Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the Order in Germany.

On July 17, 1983, Pope John Paul II awarded him the title of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness. In 1997, he was appointed canon of St. Peter's Church in Rome and was appointed apostolic protonotary . He was also a canon at the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican .

Since April 2006 Brandmüller has been a member of the Catholic student union KAV Capitolina zu Rome in the CV .

cardinal

In the solemn consistory of November 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepted him . as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi in the college of cardinals . He was previously named titular archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania . On November 13, 2010, Walter Brandmüller received the episcopal ordination through Raffaele Cardinal Farina SDB in the German national church Santa Maria dell'Anima ; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Bamberg, Ludwig Schick, and the former Apostolic Nuncio Giuseppe De Andrea . On May 15, 2011, Cardinal Brandmüller celebrated a pontifical ministry in the extraordinary rite for the first time since the liturgical reform of 1969/70 at one of the two main altars of St. Peter, the altar of the Kathedra Petri .

Due to his age - Brandmüller was already older than 80 at the time of his creation as cardinal - he was not eligible to vote at the 2013 conclave .

On September 19, 2016, Cardinal Brandmüller and Cardinals Raymond Leo Burke , Carlo Caffarra and Joachim Meisner addressed the letter Seeking Clarity: a request to untie the knots in 'Amoris Laetitia' to Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . The letter in Latin, written out of concern for the “true well-being of souls, the highest law of the Church”, contains five dubia (“doubts”) with the desire for clarifications on the controversial eighth chapter of the papal letter Amoris laetitia , especially on the question of admission divorced remarried for holy communion . The formulation of such dubia, which can only be answered with “yes” or “no”, is a common ecclesiastical tool that has been used by bishops for centuries in relation to theological questions. On November 14, 2016, the cardinals made the letter public because the Pope had not responded, which was understood as an invitation to the discourse. At the end of November 2016, the dean of the Roman Rota , Pio Vito Pinto , raised allegations against the four cardinals who had "caused a serious scandal".

In September 2018, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI responded . to a letter criticizing the creation of the office of Papa emeritus (retired Pope) through the Pope's resignation in 2013. Several newspapers attribute the letter to Walter Brandmüller. Pope emeritus Benedict made it clear that he saw this criticism as one of his pontificate as a whole; the entire pontificate is "devalued and melted into mourning over the situation of the Church today".

Positions

  • On November 19, 2011 Brandmüller commented on some questions about the sermon at a priestly ordination in Bettbrunn. A sermon must be in accordance with the teaching of the church, then the audience would have the “duty” to listen to it willingly and with reverence. A sermon required a "lifelong study of the Holy Scriptures". The authority to preach is indissolubly linked to consecration. Only bishops, priests and deacons could and should “preach the gospel in the name and authority of Jesus Christ”. Consequently, the so-called lay sermon is illegitimate.
  • In an interview with the German Press Agency at the beginning of January 2019, Walter Brandmüller assessed the outrage over the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church as hypocrisy : “Society is behaving quite hypocritically. ... What abuse has happened in the church is nothing other than what happens in society at all. "

Memberships

honors and awards

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

As an author

As editor

  • Who is jesus christ Myths, Beliefs and History . MM, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-928272-44-6 .
  • The actually Catholic . MM, Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-928272-59-4 .
  • Christ in the sacraments of the Church . MM, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-928272-04-7 .
  • Handbook of Bavarian Church History .
  • Ecclesia Militans. Studies on the history of councils and the Reformation. Dedicated to Remigius Bäumer on the occasion of his 70th birthday , Volume 1: Council history , Paderborn (among others) 1988.

Articles in collective works

  • Dr. Johannes Winhart, the last Catholic preacher at St. Gumbert in Ansbach , in: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsverein (Ed.), Diözesan-Geschichtsblätter, Würzburg, Namd 18 and 19, 1956–1957, pp. 125-.
  • Church freedom and church reform. The instructions for the ambassadors of the cathedral chapters of the church province of Reims to the Council of Pavia-Siena , in: Remigius Bäumer (ed.), Von Konstanz nach Trient (= Festschrift for August Franzen), Verlag Schöningh, Munich, Paderborn, Vienna 1972, p. 57-85.
  • The embassy of Benedict XIII. to the Council of Pisa . , in: Georg Schwaiger (Ed.), Council and Pope. Historical contributions to the question of supreme authority in the Church. Festgabe for Hermann Tüchle , Schöningh, Munich, Paderborn, Vienna 1975, ISBN 978-3-506-74785-3 , pp. 169–205.
  • Infeliciter electus fuit in Papam. For the election of John XXIII. , in: Dieter Berg (Ed.) and Hans-Werner Goetz (Ed.), Ecclesia et regnum. Contributions to the history of church, law and state in the Middle Ages (= Festschrift for Franz-Josef Schmale on his 65th birthday), Winkler-Verlag, Bochum 1989, p. 309-.
  • "The Inquisition was probably the last!". Historical reality and legend , in: Michael Müller (Ed.), Plea for the Church. Judgments about prejudices, MM Verlag, Aachen 1991, ISBN 978-3-928272-00-1 .
  • Forgiveness - the way to peace , in: Johannes Paul II. (Author), Donato Squicciarini (Ed.), The World Peace Messages of Pope Johannes Paul II. 1993-2000, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, p. 415-.
  • Carl Josef von Hefele - a historian makes history A historical feature section , in: Johannes Arnold (Hrsg.), Fathers of the Church. Ecclesial thinking from the beginnings to modern times; (= Ceremony for Hermann Josef Sieben SJ on his 70th birthday), Schöningh, Paderborn, Vienna, a. a. 2004, p. 1087-.
  • Art - Cult - Church , in: Heidemarie Seblatnig (ed.), Michael M. Wimmer (translation), Hetzendorf and the iconoclasm in the second half of the 20th century, Facultas WUV, Vienna 2010, p. 95-.
  • Remarks on the Opening of the Exhibition “Opus Iustitiae Pax. Eugenio Pacelli - Pius XII (1876–1958) ”in Munich , in: Peter Pfister (Ed.), Eugenio Pacelli - Pius XII. (1876–1958) in the view of scholarship, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2012, p. 11-.
  • Unity and Indissolubility of Marriage: From the Middle Ages to the Council of Trent , in: Robert Dodaro (Ed.), Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2014. p. 129 -147. German edition: Robert Dorado (Ed.), To remain in the truth of Christ. Marriage and communion in the Catholic Church, Echter, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-429-03783-3 . (Table of contents and editorial of the English-language original edition available online, in the editorial the abstract of this article by Brandmüller on pp. 15–24) The anthology is a replica of Walter Kasper , The Gospel of the Family. The speech in front of the consistory, Verlag Herder Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-31245-8 .
  • Renuntiatio Papae - some historical-canonical considerations , in: Johannes Grohe (Hrsg.), Gregor Wurst (Hrsg.), Zvjezdan Strika (Hrsg.), Hermann Fischer (Hrsg.), Meeting of the Church in East and West in the Mirror of the Synodal Structures. Historical-theological contributions (= Festschrift Petar Vrankić for his 70th birthday), EOS Verlag Erzabtei St. Ottilien, Sankt Ottilien 2017, ISBN 978-3-8306-7869-4 , pp. 65–80.

Magazine articles

  • What is matter , in: Voices of the Time (SdZ), Volume 79, Issue 1, 1952–1953, pp. 194ff.
  • Studies on the early history of Michelsberg Abbey . With the imprint of the calendars from the manuscripts Bamberg Lit. 1 and Karlsruhe 504 , in: Report of the Historical Association for the Care of the History of the Former Principality of Bamberg , Volume 100, 1964, pp. 95–135.
  • A sequel to the dissolution of the Council of Siena within the Augustinian order , in: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , Volume 60, 1965, pp. 186–207.
  • The Roman reports of Pietro d'Antonio De 'Micheli to the Concistoro of Siena in the spring of 1431 , in: Bullettino senese di storia patria, year 73/75, 1966/68, pp. 146–199.
  • The transition from the pontificate of Martin V to Eugen IV. , German Historical Institute in Rome (ed.), Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries, Volume 47, Tübingen 1967, pp. 596–629.
  • Does the Constance decree " Haec sancta " have dogmatic binding force ? , in: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history , year 62, 1967, pp. 1–17.
  • The Galileo Case - A Conflict between Science and Church? , in: SdZ, 1968, p. 333ff.
  • On the plan for a new council history , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 4, 1972, pp. 1-6.
  • On the question of the validity of the Urban VI election . Sources and source criticism , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum , Volume 6, 1974, pp. 78–120.
  • Sienese correspondences to the Council of Pisa , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 7, 1975, pp. 166–228.
  • The topicality of council history research , in: Theologie und Glaube, Volume 65, 1975, pp. 203–220.
  • Fata libelli. A Hussitica manuscript from Naples , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 11, 1979, pp. 142–170.
  • The Church in the Sermon of St. Bernhardin von Siena , in: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift , Volume 31, 1980, pp. 284–295.
  • Simon de Lellis de Teramo. A Konsistorialadvokat at the councils of Constance and Basel , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, born 12, 1980, pp 229-268.
  • Johann Michael Sailer's picture of the priest , in: SdZ, year 108, 1983, p. 119-.
  • Church and Workers in the 19th Century. Questions and facts , in: SdZ, year 93, 1975, p. 228-.
  • The Confessio Augustana in its historical context , in: SdZ, year 105, 1980, p. 553ff.
  • Word proclamation and consecration. The problem of lay preaching in the light of the history of the Church, especially the history of the Council , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 18, 1986, pp. 239–271.
  • The teaching of the councils on the correct interpretation of scriptures up to Vatican 1 , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 19, 1987, pp. 13–61.
  • Martin V and the Union of Greece: the "Sermo in presentacione cuiusdam episcopi Ruteni" by Mag. Mauricius Rvacka in Constance, February 25, 1418 , in: Historical Studies Antonio García y García, 1998, pp. 133–148.
  • John XXIII in the judgment of history - or the power of the cliché , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 32, 2000, pp. 106-145.
  • New Year's Eve II. Roman primacy on the threshold of the 2nd millennium , in: Bullettino dell'Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, Volume 104, 2002, pp. 1–29.
  • The conclaves at close range. The right to vote and its importance over the centuries , in: 30 days. In church and world. International Monthly, 2003, Number 5.
  • Council Synod in the corpus of Gregory the Great , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, Volume 37, 2005, pp. 377–398.
  • The canonical backgrounds of Fondi's choice , in: Annuarium historiae conciliorum, Volume 39, 2007, Issue 1/2, pp. 125–130.
  • On the problem of the ecumenicity of councils , in: Annuarium historiae conciliorum, Volume 41, 2009, Issue 2, pp. 275-312.
  • Persecuted very recently. The First Epistle of Clement , in: 30 days. In church and world. International Monthly, 2011, No. 11.
  • Marriage between power and law. The marriage quarrel between Lothar II and Nikolaus I. A case study from history , in: The New Order , Volume 68, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 180–191.
  • Renuntiatio Papae. Alcune riflessioni storico-canonistiche , in: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale. Rivista telematica (www.statoechiese.it), 2016, number 26, July 18, 2016, ISSN  1971-8543 . (14 pages), (Summary: Settimo Cielo and Giuseppe Nardi, Cardinal Brandmüller: The figure of an "emeritus" Pope harbors "great dangers" for the unity of the Church , in: kathisches.info. Magazine for Church and Culture, July 18, 2016) , and in: Jurist, Volume 76, 2016, Issue 2, pp. 311–325.
  • The Pope: Believer - Teacher of the Believers , in: The New Order, Volume 71, 2017, Issue 4, pp. 244-251, and in: Una-Voce-Korrespondenz, Volume 47, 2017, Issue 3, pp. 321– 330
  • Homosexuality and abuse. Facing the crisis. Lessons from history . in: Vatican-magazin, 2018 (Synopsis by Sandro Magister available online)
  • Singleness is gospel service . in: FAZ, 2019

Interviews

  • with Jürgen Liminski, Das Gütesiegel des Papes , in: Deutschlandfunk , April 4, 2005, (available online),
  • with Guido Horst (interviewer), patience, patience - what are fifty years? , in: Die Tagespost , October 25, 2012.
  • with Maike Hickson, Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on marriage are 'heretics' - even if they are bishops , in: lifesitenews.com, April 14, 2015, available online
  • Walter Cardinal Brandmüller: The enthusiasm for Pope Francis is superficial , in: Zeit Magazine, ZEIT HISTORY, August 26, 2014.
  • with Reinhold Michels (interviewer), "The good shepherd must not fear wolves". Vatican clergyman criticizes German bishops: self-sustaining apparatus drowns out the gospel with clatter. , in: RP ONLINE, July 1, 2015, (available online)
  • with Christian Geyer (interviewer) and Hannes Hintermeier (interviewer), Christianity does not pant for applause , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 28, 2017, (available online).
  • with Maike Hickson (Interviewer), Cardinal Brandmüller on How the Dubia Should be Answered , in: onepeterfive.com, January 3, 2018, (available online)

literature

  • Remigius Bäumer (Ed.): Synodus. Contributions to the council and general church history . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-73434-2 (Festschrift, with bibliography 1957-1996, pp. 893-935).
  • Cosimo Semeraro (Ed.): Walter Brandmüller: Scripta maneant. Raccolta di studi in occasione del suo 80 ° genetliaco. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-209-8169-3 (Festschrift for the 80th birthday)
  • Georg Denzler : Surprise seminence Brandmüller , in: Church In. The international, Christian-ecumenical news magazine, Volume 25, No. 1, 2011, pp. 40–41.

Web links

Commons : Walter Brandmüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger Archive (International Biographical Archive 15/2012 of April 10, 2012).
  2. ↑ Diamond Jubilee - Prof. Brandmüller was ordained a priest 60 years ago. Augsburger Allgemeine (online edition), July 26, 2014, accessed on August 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Vatican: Appointments - French replaces “chief historian” Brandmüller. In: Vatican Radio . 4th December 2009.
  4. ↑ Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 2009. Città del Vaticano 2009, p. 2022.
  5. ↑ Archbishop Schick congratulates Prelate Professor Walter Brandmüller on his appointment as cardinal. Der neue Wiesentbote, October 22, 2010, accessed on February 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico per la Creazione di ventiquattro nuovi Cardinali (Continuazione). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , November 20, 2010, accessed February 9, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ^ Bishop ordination for Brandmüller on November 13th. Vatican Radio, October 28, 2010, archived from the original on September 8, 2012 ; accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ http://www.katholisch.de/aktuelles/aktuelle-artikel/amoris-laetitia-kardinale-bitten-papst-um-klarung
  9. ↑ domradio.de of November 14, 2016; domradio.de from November 30, 2016
  10. ↑ Die Tagespost , issue December 1, 2016, p. 5.
  11. ↑ kathisch.de : Benedict XVI. defends his resignation , September 20, 2018
  12. ↑ Cardinal Brandmüller: Sermon must match the teaching of the church, in kath.net, November 21, 2011
  13. ↑ Cardinal calls outrage about abuse in the church hypocrisy. Spiegel online, January 4, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ zeit.de , March 3, 2017, Julius Müller-Meiningen, Raoul Löbbert: Hans-Gert Pöttering - patron saint of a good cause (March 6, 2017)
  15. ↑ ZENIT.org: Prelate Walter Brandmüller consecrated bishop before his elevation to the cardinal status ( memento of January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), requested on January 17, 2011
  16. ↑ Robert Dodaro, Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2015, table of contents and editorial available online ( Memento of 31 March 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Walter Brandmüller, The Conclaves Up Close. The right to vote and its importance over the centuries , in: 30 days. In church and world. International Monthly, 2003, Number 5, available online
  18. ↑ Walter Brandmüller, Persecuted in the Most Recent Times. Clement's first letter. in: 30 days. In church and world. International Monthly, 2011, No. 11, available online
  19. ^ Walter Brandmüller, Renuntiatio Papae. Alcune riflessioni storico-canonistiche , in: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale. Rivista telematica (www.statoechiese.it), 2016, number 26, July 18, 2016, ISSN  1971-8543 , PDF available online
  20. ↑ Settimo Cielo and Giuseppe Nardi, Cardinal Brandmüller: Figure of an “emeritus” Pope harbors “great dangers” for the unity of the Church , in: kathische.info. Church and Culture Magazine, July 18, 2016, available online
  21. ↑ Homosexuality and Abuse. Facing the Crisis: Lessons from History. Vatican magazine, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2019 (preview only, full view subject to charge).
  22. ↑ Sando Magister: Homosexuality and Abuse - The way out of the crisis. Cardinal Brandmüller on lessons from church history. In: Magazine for Church and Culture. katholisches.info, 5 November 2018, accessed January 5, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Singleness is gospel service. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online edition), 2019, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
  24. ^ Walter Brandmüller, The Pope's Seal of Approval . Interview with Jürgen Liminski, in: Deutschlandfunk, April 4, 2005
  25. ↑ Walter Brandmüller, Interview with Maike Hickson, Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on marriage are 'heretics' - even if they are bishops , in: lifesitenews.com, April 14, 2015
  26. ↑ Walter Brandmüller, "The good shepherd must not fear wolves". Vatican clergyman criticizes German bishops: self-sustaining apparatus drowns out the gospel with clatter , interview with Reinhold Michels, in: RP ONLINE, July 1, 2015
  27. ↑ Walter Brandmüller, Christianity does not pant for applause , interview with Christian Geyer and Hannes Hintermeier, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 28, 2017, (available online)
  28. ↑ Cardinal Brandmüller on How the Dubia Should be Answered Interview with Maike Hickson, in: onepeterfive.com January 3, 2018
  29. ^ Armin Schwibach : Walter Brandmüller: Scripta maneant. ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zenit. December 7, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Brandmüller, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandmüller, Walter Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, prelate, university professor, church historian, archbishop, cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach