Michael von Faulhaber
Archbishop of Munich and Freising and cardinal, who was in Rome with other German bishops in January 1937 and, according to the editors of his diaries, took a decisive part in preparing the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge.
The biography that accompanies the critical edition of his diaries gives his birth on 5 March 1869 at Klosterheidenfeld in Lower Franconia, his appointment as archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1917, his creation as cardinal by Benedict XV in 1921 and his death in Munich on 12 June 1952. Its authors state that he took a decisive part in the preparatory work for the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (Faulhaber, Diaries, editors’ biography).
His own diary for 14 to 28 January 1937 records a stay in Rome: two meetings, with the bishops, at Cardinal Pacelli’s, an hour with the pope in his sickroom on Sunday 17 January, and a farewell audience on the 23rd (Faulhaber, Diaries, 14–28 January 1937). See Mit brennender Sorge: Pius XI on the Church in the German Reich.
In the timeline
- 14 March 1937, firm dateMit brennender Sorge: Pius XI on the Church in the German Reich
In an encyclical to the German bishops dated 14 March 1937, Pius XI protests that the concordat of 1933 has been broken and rejects as contrary to faith in God the exalting of race, people or state to the highest value.
Primary sources
Diaries of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 1911–1952
- Faulhaber, Diaries, editors’ biographyfaulhaber-edition.de
- Faulhaber, Diaries, 14–28 January 1937faulhaber-edition.de