Reinhard Marx

Cardinal Reinhard Marx ( born September 21, 1953 in Geseke ) is Archbishop of Munich and Freising and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference.

2.1 Dialectic of Enlightenment
2.2 teaching
2.3 Relationship of Church and State
2.4 homosexuality
2.5 Sunday as cultural
2.6 mottoes and coats of arms 2.6.1 Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn
2.6.2 Bishop of Trier
2.6.3 Archbishop of Munich and Freising

3.1 Roman Curia
3.2 German Bishops' Conference
3.3 Other memberships

Life

Beginnings, school and higher education

Reinhard Marx grew up as the son of a locksmith in the Westphalian Geseke. He laid in 1972 at the high school Antonianum ( there in the covenant Neudeutschland active) in Geseke the Abitur examination. He then studied at the Faculty of Theology in Paderborn and Paris in Roman Catholic theology.

Priest

In 1979 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders by Archbishop John Cardinal Joachim Degenhardt. His two years as a curate in Arolsen joined from 1981 to 1989 a second degree at the Ruhr- University Bochum and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster on. 1988 Marx was at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ruhr - University Bochum in the fundamental theologian Hermann Josef Meyer pot with the work " Church Is Different? - Possibilities and limits of a sociological approach " to Dr. theol. doctorate.

He became director of social institution Coming Dortmund in Dortmund- Brackel, the Social Institute of the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1989. During his tenure in the Coming was Reinhard Marx Subsidiar in St. Ewaldi community in Aplerbeck (Dortmund).

In 1990 he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and, Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy invested by German Franz Cardinal Hengsbach. On June 21, 1993, he Pope John Paul II conferred the title of Chaplain of His Holiness. 1996 he was appointed extraordinary professor of Christian social teaching at the Faculty of Theology of Paderborn.

Bishop

On 23 July 1996 John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Petina and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt on 21 September of the same year; Co-consecrators were the two auxiliary bishops of Paderborn Hans Leo and Paul Drewes Consbruch. On 20 December 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed as successor Hermann Josef Spital the 102nd Bishop of Trier. He was inaugurated on 1 April 2002. His episcopal motto Ubi spiritus domini, ibi libertas ("Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom " ) comes from 2 Cor 3,17 EU. Marx was 1999 Chairman of the German Commission Justitia et Pax ( " Justice and Peace" ), which is supported by the German Bishops' Conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics. In this office he was confirmed in 2004 for another five years. The German Bishops' Conference elected him at the Fall General Assembly in 2004 as Chairman of its Commission for Society and social issues. As successor to Anton Schlembach Marx was 2006 Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 30 November 2007 as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. It is by virtue of this office is also the Chairman of the Freising Bishops' Conference. June 29, 2008, Marx received as Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Munich and Freising in St. Peter's at Rome, the pallium. As the successor of Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke of Eichstätt, he was appointed on 1 February 2010 to the Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt; the office he took over in October 2010.

Cardinal

In solemn consistory of November 20, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI took him. as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Corbiniano in the College of Cardinals. Up for the creation Rainer Maria Woelkis in February 2012, Cardinal Marx was the youngest member of the College of Cardinals.

Pope Francis appointed Marx in April 2013 as a member of the eight -headed Cardinal Council, which advised the Pope at the head of the universal Church and to prepare with a view to reform of the Curia changes of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus, which regulates the Organistation the Curia. The Cardinals meet to at regular intervals.

Bishops' Conference

On March 12, 2014, Marx was chosen at the Spring Plenary Meeting in Münster chairman of the German Bishops' Conference. Within the Episcopal Conference Marx is chairman of the Commission for Social and Social Issues. The term of office is six years.

Since March 2012, he is President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community ( COMECE). This body he belongs since March 2006, as a delegate of the German Bishops' Conference, and had since 20 March 2009, the office of Vice President of COMECE held.

Views

Dialectic of Enlightenment

A key variable in the thinking of Marx, the term " freedom " of the back is also found in his coat of arms. Marx understands her the freedom of the people of the Christian anthropology. The man in the image of God is self stand in relation. This is nothing more than the inviolable dignity of the human being, about which no one else may have for Marx self stand. From relation he speaks, because he - according to the Christian image of humanity - Me and You and We as fundamentally related to each other and does not consider possible for different. Man is free because God as the creator anspreche him and say: Thou shalt live. Marx acknowledges that in the " early stages of their articulation (...) human rights aggressively rejected by the Church " and were dismissed as " unbridled freedom teachings". He also refers to the Encyclical Pacem in Terris of 1963, " with which the Church of respect for human rights train broke. " The modern concept of freedom concerning Marx formulated three positions: 1) he would be no turning back in an old world; 2) the clarification do not answer to what should be the content of freedom. Marx calls the project of a dialectic of the Enlightenment, an enlightened enlightenment; 3) In the center of this project, the man and his dignity must stand, which is always in danger in the world of business.

The role of the church should not be those of the Moral producer. You should rather preach the gospel, which would provide access to God the people and proclaim a reality that is greater than man and still take care of this. In almost all statements about economic policy or social and ethical issues in Marx comes to light that the freedom of a people of God herrühre and is therefore non-negotiable. Even in economic policy must apply: The economy is made for man, not vice versa.

Reinhard Marx is co-author of its 1997 common social word of the churches. The paper emphasizes the priority of labor over capital; even if it emphasizes the personal responsibility of the individual, it was at that time as a criticism, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, seen at the social policies of the government of Helmut Kohl.

Teaching

As a regionally competent bishop, he suspended in 2003 by the Ecumenical Church Congress in Berlin emeritus professor of theology Gotthold Hasenhüttl from the priesthood because he had interzelebriert together during the Ecumenical Church Congress in an ecumenical communion service against an immediately previously repeated papal ban. The suspension was confirmed in 2004 by the Vatican. In the same year Marx denied the Tübingen ethicist Regina Quinn Ammicht the nihil obstat for teaching at the University of Saarbrücken.

Relationship of church and state

In a speech on 13 October 2009 the Bavarian state parliament in Munich, he argued that the practice of religion was not a private matter. The practice of religion is a public matter because religion would contribute to the foundations of the state and society. The idea of positive neutrality of the state towards religion assume that the secular rule of law itself can not justify by itself, but is dependent on other source of meaning. Ideological neutrality of the state would not include a value-neutrality of the state.

Homosexuality

In 2011, Marx participated in the discussion forum of the Catholic Church in Mannheim part and named according to the Protestant press as a focus for change in the Catholic Church dealing with "failed and broken people, for which he counted among other divorcees and homosexuals ." For this he was criticized by the Lesbian and Gay Federation and at the same time invited to a correction or apology, because the statements " insulting and derogatory " are. The FDP demanded a clarification of Marx. In a response to criticism Marx said that he was like his comments had been shown " very unhappy ". One can " really does not say that homosexuals - or divorced -. Failed people would be " In another opinion Marx said that the Church had in dealing with the issue of homosexuality "is not always the right tone made," and called for an open the church with the two above-mentioned groups.

Sunday as a cultural

Reinhard Marx, it is an important concern to protect Sunday as a " great heritage", as he makes clear in an ecumenical conversation with Bishop Heinrich Bedford - Strohm.

Mottoes and coats of arms

As Bishop Reinhard Marx chose the motto Ubi spiritus domini ibi libertas ( " Where the Spirit of the Lord ( acts / rules ), there [ is ] freedom " ) from the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians ( 2 Cor 3,17 EU). He writes: " This word (...) I wanted to make it clear that freedom is the essential theme of our faith. (...) In the modern world was the faith even assuming that it is accompanied by a loss of freedom. But the reverse is the case. Freedom is the prerequisite for responsibility and love. (...) "

Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn

Blazon of the shield: square, 1 in red a golden cross, the diocese of Arms of Paderborn, 2 double-headed eagle on a black cross commemorates the St. Clement Komende in Dortmund, originally a branch of the Teutonic Knights, now Social Institute of the Archdiocese of Paderborn, whose director Reinhard Marx was since 1989. 3 from the coat of arms of Arolsen, where he had his first vicar point, 4 white cross on a blue background, the emblem of his hometown Geseke. "Three-quarters " of the coat of arms weihbischöflichen refer therefore to biographical stations of the crest holder.

Bishop of Trier

Blazon of the shield: Great Seal, red cross on a white ground, the coat of arms of the diocese of Trier. Small coat of arms placed on guardant azure a winged golden lion with a human head vollbärtigem, an open Bible, in the Greek letters Alpha and Omega, the front paw reserved. This is the symbol of the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist. Thus, the coat of arms was a " persuasive coat of arms ", as St. Mark onomatopoeic the name " Marx " recalls the now dominates the crest.

Archbishop of Munich and Freising

Blazon of the shield: square, 1 and 3 in a Gold rotlippiger Mohrenkopf with red crown, lace collar and earring, 2 and 4 in Red a guardant winged golden lion with vollbärtigem human head, an open Bible, in the Greek letters Alpha and Omega, the front paw reserved.

The coat of arms shows the Moor of Freising ( traditionally the emblem of the Munich archbishops ) and a variant of the St. Mark symbol ( wing lion and whipped Bible ) that the presumed original meaning of the name Marx ( Marks ' or ' Marx ' of Markus ' contracts, see Mark Burg Mark Burg = ) suggesting.

Memberships

Roman Curia

Member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (since 2014)
A member of the Congregation for Catholic Education (since 2010)
Member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace ( since 2010)
Member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches ( confirmed 2014)
Member of the Pontifical Economic Council (since 2014), whose cardinal Coordinator

German Bishops' Conference

Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference (since 2014)
Member of the Commission for Society and Social Affairs of the German Bishops' Conference
Member of the Commission for International Church of the German Bishops' Conference

Affiliations

Member of Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice
Member of the Association of Scientific Catholic student associations Unitas eV ( Unitas Hathumar to Paderborn, WKSt.V. Unitas Unitas Winfridia Münster and Munich)
Member of St. Sebastian protecting Brotherhood Geseke 1412
Honorary member of several fraternities of the CV ( KDSt.V. Angrivaria Dortmund, KDSt.V. Aenania Munich, KAV Capitolina Rome) and KV ( K.St.V. Ostmark Bytom Paderborn, KSSt.V. Alemannia München)
Since March 2011 member of the Ethics Commission for Secure Energy
Member of Borussia Dortmund

Honors

2002 Maju Media Award
2002 appointment as procurator of the clergy of St. Sebastian protecting Brotherhood Geseke 1412 eV
2003 Franz- White Bach Prize
2007 Peter - Altmeier Medal
2008 Honorary Citizen of his hometown of Geseke
2009 Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy and Theology Vallendar
Corine 2009 - International Book Award for Capital. A plea for the people
2011 Prices social market economy of the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung eV
2011 Bavarian Constitution Medal in Gold

Works

Is church different? Essays on social ethics. Paderborn 1990.
You are the epistle of Christ. A priest in the testimony of Therese of Lisieux, John XXIII. and Romano Guardini. Paderborn 1999 ( together with Peter Schallberg ).
Christian social ethics: outlines - principles - fields of action. Paderborn 2002 ( Together with Helge Wulsdorf ).
We have the mind of Christ. Holy as examples of priestly spirituality. Paderborn 2002 ( together with Peter Schallberg ).
Justice is possible. Heckling on the situation of the welfare state. Freiburg 2004 ( together with Bernhard Nacke ).
Righteousness before God. Words that continue. Freiburg 2006.
The capital. A plea for humans. Assisted by Arnd Küppers. Munich 2008.
Faith and education. A dialogue between theology and science education. Paderborn 2013 ( Together with Klaus Decorators ).

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