Michael von Faulhaber: Difference between revisions

In 1910, Faulhaber was appointed [[Bishop of Speyer]] and invested as such on 19 February 1911. On 1 March 1913, he was appointed a Knight of the [[Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown]] by [[Ludwig III of Bavaria|Prince Regent Ludwig]]; in accordance with the statutes of this order, Faulhaber was ennobled with the style of "''[[Ritter]] [[von]] Faulhaber''". In 1916 he won the [[Iron Cross]] (as the first clergyman in the [[German Empire]]) at the [[Western Front of World War I|Western Front]] for his frontline support of troops by acting as a [[military chaplain]].<ref name="Speaking Symbol">[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,859826,00.html Speaking Symbol] 23 June 1952. ''Time Magazine'' article on Cardinal von Faulhaber.</ref> In 1917, his appointment as [[Archbishop of Munich]] followed. In 1921 he became a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]], with the title of [[Cardinal-Priest]] of ''[[Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino|Sant'Anastasia]]'', and at his death was the last surviving Cardinal appointed by [[Pope Benedict XV]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Pham |first=John-Peter |url=https://archive.org/details/heirsoffisherman00pham |url-access=registration |quote=faulhaber. |title=Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession |date=30 November 2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-933482-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/heirsoffisherman00pham/page/246 246]–47 }}</ref>

 

 

Faulhaber publicised, and supported by creating an institutional link for the association, the work of ''[[Amici Israël]]''. He supported the group by distributing its writings, saying "we must ensure wide distribution of the writings of the Amici Israel" and admonishing preachers to steer clear of any statements that "might sound in any way anti-Semitic" – this even though, "he himself was somewhat tainted by anti-Semitic stereotypes that placed Jews in the same category as Freemasons and Socialists."<ref>Hubert Wolf, Pope and Devil: the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich, pp. 89–90, Harvard University Press, 31 May 2010.</ref> Faulhaber was friends with the group's promoter, Sophie Francisca van Leer;<ref>Hill, Roland, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yxSLvB-mujcC A time out of joint: A journey from Nazi Germany to post-war Britain], The Radcliffe Press, 30 October 2007.</ref> its special aim was to seek changes to the [[Good Friday]] prayer and some of its Latin phrases such as ''pro perfidis Judaeis'' (for treacherous Jews) and ''judaicam perfidiam'' (Jewish treachery) and sought the cessation of the deicide accusation against Jews. It was dissolved in March 1928 on the decree of the Vatican's [[Congregation of the Holy Office]] on the grounds that its perspectives were not in keeping with the spirit of the Church.<ref>Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence and the Holocaust, p. xvii.</ref>