Walter Kasper

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Walter Cardinal Kasper (born 5 March 1933 in Heidenheim an der Brenz) is a Cardinal Emeritus and former President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. Previously, he was Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart from 1989 to 1999.

Live life
Kasper lived from 1938 to 1946 in Lacknbeuren, district of Göppingen, where his father was a primary school teacher, and then in Wangen im Allgäu. He graduated in 1952 at the Gymnasium Ehingen on the Danube. Subsequently, he studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, at the Wilhelmsstift Tübingen and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In 1956, he graduated and was retired a year later on the 6th. April 1957 in Rottenburg ordained a priest. From 1957 to 1958 he completed his vicariate in the parish of Herz Jesu in Stuttgart under Pastor Ernst Hofmann. From 1958 to 1961 he worked as a repeater at Wilhelmsstift Tübingen. In 1961, after completing a dissertation entitled The Doctrine of Tradition in the Roman School. (Giovanni Perrone, Carlo Passaglia, Clemens Schrader) receives his doctorate at the University of Tübingen; In 1964 he habilitated after an assistant with Hans Küng.

In the same year, Kasper received a reputation as Professor of Dogmatics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and was Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty there in the summer semester 1970. During his time in Münster, Kasper was one of the founders of the church reformist-oriented Freckenhorster circle and was elected one of its first speakers in 1969. From 1970 Kasper taught dogmatics at the University of Tübingen and in 1979/80 was involved in the ecclesiastical dispute over Hans Küng’s teaching permit, in which he finally advocated his exclusion from the faculty. In 1983 he was visiting professor at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. He was Special Secretary of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1985, and also a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC and the International Theological Commission in Rome. Between 1993 and 2001 he published the third edition of the Lexicon for Theology and the Church.

Among Kasper’s students are the theologians Hans Kessler, Arno Schilson, Peter Walter, Eberhard Schockenhoff, Thomas Pröpper, Leonhard Hell and George Augustin.

On April 4, 1989, Kasper was elected bishop of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart as Bishop Georg Moser’s successor, appointed on April 17 by Pope John Paul II and ordained bishop in Rottenburg on June 17, 1989. The episcopal ordination was donated to him by the Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Oskar Saier. Co-consecrators were Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz and Franz Josef Kuhnle, auxiliary bishop in Rottenburg-Stuttgart. His motto is Veritatem in caritate ("Truth in Charity"). Bishop Kasper was Chairman of the World Church Commission and Vice President