Monday, June 11, 2007

AGREEMENT ON TEACHING THEOLOGY IN BAVARIA RATIFIED

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2007 (VIS) - On Friday, June 8, at the apostolic nunciature in Berlin, Germany, Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender, apostolic nuncio to Germany, and Edmund Stoiber, minister president of the Free State of Bavaria, exchanged the instruments of ratification of an additional protocol to the Concordat with Bavaria of March 29, 1924 (last modified with the agreement of June 8 1988). The additional protocol between the Holy See and the Free State of Bavaria was signed on January 19.

  The instruments of ratification "regulate certain questions concerning the teaching of theology, both in faculties of Catholic theology in State universities and in other teaching centers in Bavaria."

  Among those participating in the ceremony were, for the Church, Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, apostolic administrator of Munich and Freising and, for the State, Siegfried Schneider, minister of education and religious worship.

  The additional protocol came into effect the day following the exchange of the instruments of ratification.
.../THEOLOGY/BAVARIA                        VIS 20070611 (170)


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