Aloísio Lorscheider

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Archbishop Emeritus of Aparecida
Cdl. Aloísio Lorscheider.
ArchdioceseAparecida
SeeAparecida
Appointed12 July 1995
Term ended28 July 2004
PredecessorGeraldo María de Morais Penido
SuccessorRaymundo Damasceno Assis
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio (1976-2007)
Orders
Ordination22 August 1948
Consecration20 May 1962
by Alfredo Vicente Scherer
Created cardinal24 May 1976
by Pope Paul VI
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider

(1924-10-08)8 October 1924
Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Died23 December 2007(2007-12-23) (aged 83)
Porto Alegre, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
DenominationCatholic
Previous post(s)
(1974-1975
  • President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (1975-1979)
    • MottoIn cruce salus et vita
    Styles of
    Aloísio Lorscheider
    Reference style
    		His Eminence
    Spoken styleYour Eminence
    Informal styleCardinal

    Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. (8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a Brazilian

    papacy in the two conclaves
    of 1978.

    Early life and ordination

    Lorscheider was of

    German descent, born in Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul
    , Brazil. He entered the local Franciscan minor seminary of Taquari at the age of nine years. He began his novitiate in December 1942 and was ordained as a priest on 22 August 1948.

    Professor and bishop

    He taught a number of subjects – German, mathematics, Latin – but it was not long before he went to Rome to study dogmatic theology. Lorscheider received his doctorate in 1952, and returned to Brazil to teach that same subject at the Franciscan Seminary of Divinopolis.

    In 1958 Lorscheider was called back to Rome to teach, and in 1962 made bishop of Santo Ângelo. Lorscheider attended the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965, and he was named Archbishop of Fortaleza in the northeastern state of Ceará in 1973.

    After the first meeting between Church and Freemasonry which had been held on 11 April 1969 at the convent of the Divine Master in Ariccia, he was the protagonist of a series of public handshakes between high prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and the heads of Freemasonry.[1]

    Cardinal

    Cardinal Lorscheider's tomb.

    As Lorscheider grew in popularity with his flock and his ability as a prelate was recognised,

    August 1978 conclave
    .

    Lorscheider headed the

    Latin American Episcopal Conference in 1976.[2]

    In 1995, Pope John Paul II named Lorscheider Archbishop of Aparecida in São Paulo State. He resigned the pastoral government of the Aparecida archdiocese at the beginning of 2004.

    It is also thought Lorscheider was one of the most vital supporters of

    October 1978 conclave.[2]

    After the death of John Paul II in 2005, Lorscheider said that the European cardinals' "sense of superiority" would not allow them to elect a non-European pope.

    Joseph Ratzinger
    to succeed John Paul II.

    Liberation theology

    He defended Leonardo Boff when that theologian was brought to heel by Joseph Ratzinger in the 1980s, and continued his strong social activism, being jailed briefly in 1993 as a result of participating in a protest against government policy.

    With the crackdown on dissent in the John Paul II papacy, especially after Cardinal Ratzinger (later

    Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1981, Lorscheider found himself opposing brother cardinals whom he had been very firmly associated with during the papacy of Pope Paul VI
    .

    During his Church career, he developed his outspoken stance on the appalling poverty that blighted the region. He believed that the Church was obliged to take a firm stand against this poverty and his hard-working and personable character allowed him to develop links with the poor that he observed to be lacking in previous generations of priests. He was a vehement critic of Brazil's military dictatorship and its torture of political opponents and favoured a flexible approach to church structure.

    Death

    He died on 23 December 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil after a long hospitalization.[2]

    References

    1. ^ Sandro Magister (19 August 1999). "Tra il papa e il massone non c'è comunione" [There is no communion between the pope and the Mason] (in Italian). L'Espresso.
    2. ^ a b c "Aloisio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian Cardinal, Is Dead". The New York Times. Associated Press. 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
    3. ^ "Cardinal Ratzinger 'odious'". News 24. 17 April 2005. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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