The Pastoraltheologe and the second Vatikani council. A Innsbrucker Jesuit and the academic retreat due to the load „the reforms “.

(, Innsbruck kreuz.net) in Stams in the Tirol, P. walter Croce SJ on 22 November in the mother house of the Barhmherzigen the former professor for Pastoraltheologie at the University of Innsbruck died to sisters. P. Croce stood in 92. Year of life. The deceased dozierte from 1957-1977 at the Innsbrucker theological faculty. Already 1950 appointed it the Federal Ministry the lector for Homiletik (lecture science) and lecture exercises.

1952 habilitierte itself P. Croce in the subject Pastoraltheologie to the topic „the Adventmesse Roman Missale “. The work was examined from at that time very well-known P. Andreas's young man SJ, which was because of its historical work over the Roman measuring book world well-known. As second consultants worked the professor for Patrologie, P. Hugo Rahner SJ, the early deceased brother of the theologian P leading at the second Vatikanum. Karl Rahner SJ.

P leads twenty years. Croce pastoraltheologische Institut. Into the time of its working the second Vatikani council and the transformation of the Pastoraltheologie fell into a subject more coined/shaped by the society sciences.

„The load of the reforms “and the Ausdifferenzierung of its discipline “not approved of by it „led, as the present dean of the theological faculty, Józef Niewiadomski in the death notice writes, to the premature retreat of P. Croce from the academic happening.

The university professor spent the last decades of his life therefore as simple Seelsorger in Lindau and Zams.

The requiem for the deceased Jesuiten with following burying is celebrated tomorrow, 30 November, at 14 o'clock in the Jesuitenkirche in Innsbruck.

On 27 February Swiss P already died. to Raymund brother-in-law SJ from the active Professorenkollegium of the theological faculty in Innsbruck. P. brother-in-law was a professor of many years for Dogmatik and in experts with the development of one „dramatic theology “had out-done. P. brother-in-law died surprisingly in 68. Year of life.

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Thanks for this good appreciation of the deceased Jesuitenprofessors!