Michael von Faulhaber

See also: Faulhaber

Michael von Faulhaber (Klosterheidenfeld, current Röthlein, Germany, March 5th 1869 - Munich, June 12th 1952), dignitary of the Roman Catholic church.

Ordered priest in 1892, it is crowned bishop in 1910, and is charged with the Diocèse of Whorl. During the First World War, it firmly supports the engagement of its country in the war. In 1917, he becomes archbishop of Munich, seat which he will occupy until his death. In 1921, it is high with the dignity of cardinal.

In 1925, this conservative will prohibit with the clergy of his diocese any action aiming at paying homage to the President of the Republic, Friedrich Ebert, which had just died.

As of December 1933, for the period of the Advent, it denounces in pulpit the ideology absolute etatist of the Nazisme, informant: “We should never forget it: we are not repurchased by our German blood”. Its defense of the Old Testament is however in conformity with the Antijudaïsme traditional catholic. It is shown also in favor of the legal settlement with Hitler. In 1934, it publishes Judenum, Christentum, Germanentum , defending the friendship between the people. In 1937, it writes the initial draft of the Encyclique MIT brennender Sorge condemning the Nazisme. This first jet then is supplemented and hardened by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Mgr Pacelli, future Pie XII.

In 1938, Faulhaber is taken with party directly by the Nazis. It is called the Judenkardinal , the “Jewish cardinal”. The Gauleiter denounces “the world juivery and its black and red allies”, and crowd attacks the episcopal palate. The same year however, it supports the Anschluss and the invasion of the Czechoslovakia. After the attempted murder of Hitler by Johann Georg Elser, in 1939, it makes say a mass of thanksgiving and sends to the German chancellor a telegram of support.

Its name is evoked by the the Holy See in the declaration We remember: a reflection on Shoah , known as “of repentance”, the March 16th 1998: “Well-known sermons of the Faulhaber cardinal in 1933, the year even where national-socialisme arrived at the capacity (…) clearly expressed the express rejection of propaganda anti-semite Nazi. ” The personality of the Faulhaber cardinal, like that of Pie XII, is the subject of a polemic on the role of the Roman Catholic church during the Second world war.

See too

Catholic church of Germany vis-a-vis the Nazism

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