John M. Oesterreicher
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Born | Johannes Oesterreicher 2 February 1904 Jewish-Catholic relations |
Notable work | Nostra aetate |
Monsignor John Maria Oesterreicher (2 February 1904 – 18 April 1993), born Johannes Oesterreicher, was a
Biography
Oesterreicher was born to a Jewish family in Město Libavá (Stadt Liebau) in Moravia (then part of Austria[3] and now the Czech Republic). He was a convert to Catholicism and became a priest in 1927.[3] He served as a chaplain in Gloggnitz, and there he founded the local Scout group and served at its chaplain.[2][4]
He was an anti-Nazi activist in the 1930s. In 1934 he founded the newspaper Die Erfüllung (The Fruition) to improve relations between
After the broadcast of Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg's resignation on 11 March 1938, Österreicher went to Schuschnigg's office and burned all the correspondence, because he was aware that the Gestapo would search his office and home. Österreicher also burned all of his own correspondence as well as his books, in order to protect citizens of Jewish origin. His parents, Nathan and Ida Oesterreicher, later died in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. He fled Austria five weeks after the March 1938 Anschluss, or annexation of Austria.[2][3][6] Based initially in Paris, he condemned the Nazis in weekly broadcasts and writings. He fled to the U.S. after the German invasion of France in 1940.[2][3]
Oesterreicher founded the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at
The statement thus repudiated the historic
He lived near the campus of
Quote
- Nobody says anything against the Egyptian authorities for oppressing the Coptic Christians. No one protested vehemently against the forced closing of St. Joseph's College years ago in Iraq, nor against the laws in Jordan prior to 1967 which prohibited Christians from acquiring new property. If Israel did any of these things, everyone would cry bloody murder, from the authorities in Rome to Catholics all over the world... This is prejudice. (Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher, quoted by James C. O'Neill, Our Sunday Visitor, 10 July 1983)
See also
- Gregory Baum — Nostra aetate co-author
- Bruno Hussar — Nostra aetate co-author
References
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
Msgr. John Maria Oesterreicher, who spent a lifetime nurturing understanding between Roman Catholics and Jews, died on Sunday at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J. He was 89 and lived near the campus of Seton Hall University in South Orange. ...
- ^ a b c d e f g Philipp Lehar (2008). "Persönlichkeiten der Zeitgeschichte und Pfadfinderbrüder". PPÖ-Brief (in German). 3/2008. Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs: 5.
- ^ a b c d e Jelinek, Gerhard (2008). Nachrichten aus dem 4.Reich (in German). Vienna. p. 149.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Pfadfindergilde Gloggnitz-Wartenstein (October 2008). "Gedenktafelenthüllung für Prälat Johannes Österreicher". Der Gildenweg (in German). 3/2008: 14.
- ^ Christian Klösch (2000). "Ein mehr als schlampiges Verhältnis-Ständestaat und katholische Kirche und ihr Verhältnis zum Antisemitismus". Gedenkdienst Zeitung (in German). 3/2000: 5.
- ^ a b c d Wahle, Hedwig. "Das I.D.C.I.V.-Entstehen und Wirken des Informationszentrums im Dienste der christlich-jüdischen Verständigung" (in German). Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
- ^ Elias H. Füllenbach: Die Kirche Christi und die Judenfrage (1937), in: Handbuch des Ant|isemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bd. 6: Publikationen, hrsg. von Wolfgang Benz, Berlin / Boston 2013, S. 400–403.
- ^ Connelly, J. (2014). Eschatology and the Ideology of Anti-Judaism. Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 9(1)
- ISBN 3-451-27735-2.
- ^ "Barnes S.J., Michael. "Nostra aetate -the moral heart of the Second Vatican Council", Jesuits in Britain, 2015". Archived from the original on 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
- ^ GOD'S 'LOVING WILL' SPURS CHURCH'S 'JEWISH CONNECTION' Archived February 5, 2002, at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Elias H. Füllenbach: Shock, Renewal, Crisis: Catholic Reflections on the Shoah, in: Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust, ed. by Kevin P. Spicer, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, D.C., Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN 2007, pp. 201–234.