Michael von Faulhaber

Michael von Faulhaber (5 March 1869 – 12 June 1952) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 to 1952.

Quotes

Faulhaber preached five sermons on the four Sundays of Advent (December 3,10,17, and 24) , and on New Years Eve, 1933, in St.Michael's, the largest church in Munich. A translation of the sermons was published in 1934.

• By accepting these books [The Old Testament] - Christianity does not become a Jewish religion. These books were not composed by Jews; they are inspired by the Holy Ghost, and therefore they are the word of God, they are God's books [-] Antagonism to the Jews of today must not be extended to the books of pre-Christian Judaism.
  • Sermon One, Judaism Christianity and Germany, p.14, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd. London 1934

• These ten commandments come to us as a Divine Revelation, as a document signed by God Himself [-] Not the wisdom of the street corners, nor the wisdom of the learned schools, but the conduct which God requires of us [-] in the fourth commandment, Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother, the mother is set upon the same level as the father in the eyes of the children. Such reverence for women was not revealed by oriental 'flesh and blood.'
  • Sermon Two, Judaism Christianity & Germany, p.25, 28-29

• The times are not far distant when we used to hear the cry in Communistic circles: 'Private property is a theft from the people.' Fortunately these voices are now silenced.
  • Sermon Three, p.53

• Notwithstanding all the guidance of divine grace Israel did not know the time of her visitation. [-] The great majority of the people rejected the Messias with the cry: 'His blood be upon us and upon our children' (Matt. xxvii, 25).
  • Sermon Four, p.79

Quotes about Faulhaber

• Cardinal Michael Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich and temporary vice-rector of the Anima, even referred to his episcopal colleague [ Alois Hudal ] as 'court theologian of the NSDAP', even though he himself had for a long time maintained bridges between fascism and the Church. After 1945, however, he changed his position and distanced himself from Hudal.
  • Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on the Run, p.127