Ludwig Schick

Ludwig Schick ( born September 22, 1949 in Marburg) is Archbishop of Bamberg and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamberg. He was previously Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda and professor of canon law at the Theological Faculty of Fulda.

4.1 The importance of sacred music
4.2 reforms
4.3 sustainability
4.4 Anti- blasphemy law
Sentenced 4.5 Hexenwahn
4.6 racism

6.1 Awards
6.2 testimonies
6.3 dedications

Life

Youth and Education

Ludwig Schick was born on 22 September 1949 as the second child of the control inspector Josef Schick and his wife Auguste in the Hessian town of Marburg. The family moved into a few kilometers away Marden. After visiting the seminary of St. Johann in Amoeneburg he laid in 1969 from a high school. He then studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Faculty of Theology of Fulda and the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg. Since 1972 he is a member of the Catholic Student Association WKSt.V. Unitas Hetania to Würzburg. On 15 June 1975 he received by Bishop Edward Schick, with whom he is not related, in the Fulda Dom the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a chaplain in Neuhof ( near Fulda ). Thereafter he devoted himself to doctoral studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he at November 19, 1980 with a dissertation on the topic The threefold ministry of Christ and the Church. Graduated to the emergence and development of the trilogies.

Ecclesiastical career

Since 1981, Schick taught in Fulda and the Catholic seminary of the Philipps- University Marburg 1985 to 2002. He was Professor of Canon Law.

From 1981 to 1987 he was assistant at the Episcopal Offizialat Fulda and 1981-1993 ecumenical officer and chairman of the Ecumenical Commission. In 1987 he was appointed canon in the diocese of Fulda and appointed on 1 September 1995 Vicar General of the diocese. Pope John Paul II, who had been awarded to him in 1996 the title of Pontifical honorary prelate, Schick appointed on 20 May 1998 as Titular Bishop of Auzia and Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop Johannes Dyba on 12 July of the same year. His motto is: Sapientia nobis a Deo (Jesus Christ - the wisdom given to us by God).

On 28 June 2002 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop in the Archdiocese of Bamberg and on 21 September of the same year by the Apostolic Nuncio Giovanni Lajolo solemnly inaugurated. On June 29, 2003 Schick received in Rome by Pope John Paul II the pallium.

In the German Bishops' Conference Schick belongs to the universal Church Commission and the Pastoral Commission. In the Autumn 2006 General Assembly of the German Bishops Conference, he was the successor of Franz Kamphaus elected as Chairman of the Commission for International Church elected to coordinate inter alia, the work of Catholic charities Missio, Misereor, Adveniat and Renovabis.

In 2007 he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master John Patrick Cardinal Foley Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and invested by Reinhard Marx, Grand Prior of the German governor's office, on 15 September 2007.

Functions and Memberships

Ludwig Schick is a member of the following inter-diocesan bodies:

Member of the Commission III " Pastoral ", since September 1998.
Representative of the German Bishops' Conference pastoral care for men, since November 2001.
Member of the steering group " prayer and song book", since April 2002.
Deputy Chairman of the Freising Bishops' Conference, since September 2002.
Member of the Commission " world church " since 1998, its Chairman since September 2006.

Foundations

Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg founded in two foundations, the Family Children's Foundation Empire and the Foundation bread for all.

Family Foundation Children's World

The Family Foundation Kinderreich to implement chic ideas regarding families in practice. After this the family is the original cell of social and ecclesial life. In it, a holistic education are being taught to the human condition. From Schick's view values such as respect, helpfulness, forgiveness and new beginnings are promoted daily in the family.

Foundation Bread for All People

His foundation bread for all people Schick pursues a threefold objective. Firstly, the small-scale agriculture should be promoted by them in developing countries. Furthermore, they will help to ensure that small farmers are high-quality seeds and fertilizers and irrigation facilities are available. The second pillar of the foundation is to transfer know -how, particularly in the agricultural technical training. Here is to be promoted in Senegal or Niger is an agricultural college. Funding for acute emergencies should be available as a third, especially in the Sahel and in North Africa, where it comes to crop failure again and again to the extraordinary drought. It should for people who are at risk of starvation, funding is provided to purchase food.

Archbishop's Coat of Arms

The blazon is: square; in field 1 and 4 in gold on the left -facing, Covered with a silver slant Links bar, red reinforced black lion; in box 2 in Gules, a book whose cover is decorated with the black subscribed crossed Greek letters chi and rho, the monogram of Christ Chrismon at the sides of the letters Alpha and Omega; in field 3 in blue a braided silver basket with five silver breads.

Symbolism: Field 1 and 4 show the coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, field 2 and 3, the private components of the previous weihbischöflichen coat of arms. Book and breads are available for the Word of God in the gospel and for the Eucharist, also on behalf of the Diocese of St. Boniface Fuldarer (Book of the Gospel ) and Elizabeth of Thuringia ( bread of charity ). Biographical they symbolize Marburg as a place of baptism and Fulda as Weiheort Ludwig Schick.

The shield is surrounded by the heraldic rank images of a Metropolitan ( Archbishop ): the golden double cross, the green prelate with both sides of every ten green tassels on strings and the white pallium. The pallium and the two-row processional cross are the signs of a rank ruling metropolitans an ecclesiastical province. Below shield and pallium is a white tape on the personal motto Schick: " Sapientia nobis a Deo " - " The wisdom that is given to us of God" (1 Cor 1:30. ).

Episcopal insignia

The miter is a gift to Schick's Episcopal Ordination of the parish in which he was to spend 22 years as Subsidiar. It was sculpted by Sr. Hilaris hair angel OSB in the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary in Fulda. Schick put on a deliberately simple design value. In the center is an embroidered cross, which is decorated with a single pearl. This means for him: As a bishop, I beyond myself assign to Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord. He and his gospel is the pearl, for which everything is worth to sell in order to purchase them.

The pectoral cross is made in the Abbey Muensterschwarzach. On a silver background the chart IHS (Jesus) is plotted in gold. The importance of the chart changed from antiquity to the Middle Ages from a mere symbol name to a message of salvation. Under the IHS medieval theologians understood the abbreviation for Jesus Hominum Salvator = Jesus, Redeemer of man. Schick understands the symbol on his pectoral cross in the medieval interpretation as referring to Jesus, in whom God became man.

The bishop's ring is a real ring council, Pope Paul VI. at the end of the Council made all the bishops. He is a gift from Eduard Schick, who took part in all meetings of the Council. Schick sees the ring as a sign of loyalty both to his archdiocese as well as to post-conciliar Church.

Positions

Importance of church music

Liturgical celebrations understands Schick also as an effective healing space in which the man with his best efforts can come into harmony again. According to Schick In this context, unfolds the sacred music has a therapeutic effect in that it - and this applies to both harmonic and for dissonannte compositions - the disharmony of the world leads to the harmony of God and can thus bring healing. Schick emphasized the missionary character of the church music, is to realize an artistic quality music is capable of. " Church music does God feel and perceive, by creating silence and leads into the depths of the human soul. "

Reforms

In connection with the affair of Bishop Walter Mixa, 2010, Schick called for a renewal of the Church. He also shares his thoughts for a relaxation of the celibacy of Catholic priests, and for a stronger involvement of women in the church.

Sustainability

In his capacity as chairman of the Commission for International Church Schick calls for a more enlightened approach to food that is wasted in the Western world in an irresponsible manner. The archbishop referred to the damage caused by the industrialized nations climate change as the main cause of hunger in poor countries where, because of drought or floods ever smaller harvests could be obtained. Therefore, the next UN climate conference would bring concrete results against the CO2 emissions, the monopolization of food as well as the purchase of large land and water surfaces are prevented. The people in the industrialized nations would contribute to reducing hunger in the world through conscious nutrition, energy conservation and reduced consumption. "If arable land, food and water supplies for speculative objects of the kingdoms of this world, the poor are the total loser. "

Anti - blasphemy law

Beginning of August 2012 called for Schick to make under a recently published controversial publication of the satirical magazine Titanic, blasphemy is punishable future. He explained who violates the soul of the believer with scorn and derision, which must be put in their place and possibly punished and called for a law against the mockery of religious values and feelings should protect not only Christianity but all religions in this context. Ridicule and satire of religious attitudes constituted a violation of human dignity dar. Schick stated that although there is the paragraph 166 of the Criminal Code, but this was completely forgotten and will hardly used. Against holy persons, holy scriptures, worship and prayer and sacred objects and devices of all religions not scorn and derision should be allowed.

The demand Schick sparked a controversy. Thomas Goppel (CSU ) supported the suggestion, in other parties (FDP, SPD and Die Linke ) she was rejected. The parliamentary secretary of the Greens Volker Beck said: believers would need no other protection against criminal defamation, insult and incitement than other social groups. Franz Maget, church expert on the Bavarian SPD, held the advance to be unnecessary, since blasphemy does not constitute a relevant social problem. The satirical website The postilion reached Schick utterances also.

Sentenced Hexenwahn

The Archdiocese of Bamberg sentenced on 27 August 2012, Hexenwahn the persecution and killing of innocent people and reiterated the request for forgiveness from the year 2007. Given repeated claims that the Catholic Church should apologize for the burning of witches in Bamberg, recalled Archbishop Ludwig Schick mind that on 11 March 2007 on the occasion of the diocese anniversary 1000th the Archdiocese for the " witch craze in the Bishopric of Bamberg, at the beginning of the 17th century, several hundred people lost their lives," have asked for forgiveness. This request is also true today and for the future, Archbishop Schick and added: Catholic officials and other church members have done wrong. To the victims and their families is terrible happen. The processes that were performed on our best current understanding of the law wrong and the judgments therefore null and void.

Racism

In connection with the made in the summer of 2013 dismissal of a Bamberger students, which according to an external inquiry commission told at least three " totally unacceptable and intolerable concentration camp jokes " and, moreover, Adolf Hitler had imitated from the seminary Würzburg Schick said: " I am concerned anti-Semitic and racist remarks and trends, and the glorification of Nazi symbols and nationalism in our society to the extreme - especially when it happens within the church. "

Publications (selection )

The threefold ministry of Christ and the Church. On the origin and development of the trilogies. Transition Verlag Frankfurt / Bern 1982, ISBN 3-8204-5981-2 (PhD 1980).
The parish. Reflections on a theological- canonical position determination. EOS Verlag St. Ottilia, 1988, ISBN 3-88096-426-2.
... and became man. A companion for the Advent and Christmas season. Herder Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-451-29251-4.
Our Father - considerations. Heinrichs -Verlag Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89889-136-3.
Paul in Christ - for Christ. Heinrichs -Verlag Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89889-137-0.
What the Bamberger Dom can tell us. Henry Verlag Bamberg, 2012.
Bernhard Lichtenberg - aspects of his life and work for us today. In Barbara Stühlmeyer, Ludger Stühlmeyer: Bernhard Lichtenberg. I will follow my conscience. Topos plus publishing community, Kevelaer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-836708-35-7, pp. 82-86.

Honors

Awards

Credentials

Horst Seehofer Ludwig Schick: He unfolded since the beginning of its activity a diverse church, social and cultural commitment. His pastoral emphases are supported by administrative measures. In terms of a cross-linking of the Catholic Church with other socially relevant cultural institutions he intensified the pastoral use in sports clubs or as part of the Football World Cup, a commitment that is backed by personal activities in sport in its credibility.

Dedications

Choralkantate Now thank we all our God, by Ludger Stühlmeyer. Archbishop Ludwig Schick appropriated to the ten-year anniversary as a bishop of Bamberg.

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