Prefect

Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council published the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue have published A Journey of Hope.

In the following interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks about the Church's desire for dialogue with people of other faiths.

He's asked, In a world of divisions, wars, and violence, where the religious component is often cited among the causes of conflict, what value and contemporary relevance does the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate hold? To which he answers, Section 9 of the note recalls a fundamental passage from paragraph 5 of Nostra Aetate, which states, quote, And if we did end it just there with race, color, condition of life, He'd not been wrong.

Once you add in religion, you get a problem because the Gospels are pretty full of examples of Jesus being very discriminatory towards and or harassing people based on their views on God.

Hamburg increased his already considerable stipend, so in Hamburg he remained.

graupner on the other hand would have come gladly but his darmstadt masters declined to release him before the final decision was made bach made it his business to be on hand at leipzig when it became clear to graupner that he was out of the running he heartily recommended the latter was requested in order to prove his fitness for the post he sought to conduct in the church of st thomas on good friday seventeen twenty three a work of his own composition appropriate to the day that work was the passion according to st john which though it may have been written hurriedly is a creation of such transcendent grandeur that only the later passion according to st matthew can be said to excel it in lyric splendor and sublimity as soon as graupner's decision was known bach asked prince leopold for his official leave the letter of dismissal was couched in most friendly and flattering terms at leipzig bach executed a document binding himself to discharge all the duties of the cantorship undertaking to teach a variety of subjects and even to give private lessons in singing without extra pay the only thing he balked at was taking charge of latin classes for this chore he agreed to provide a substitute at his own expense then he took leave of prince leopold with whom he remained on terms of the closest friendship till the prince's death five years later on may five seventeen twenty three he received from the burgomaster of leipzig the ceremonious notification of his unanimous appointment on may thirty he conducted at the church of st nicholas which he served alternately with the church of st thomas the cantata the hungry shall be fed therewith he inaugurated his office bach's greater work bach settled in leipzig at the age of thirty-eight he remained there the rest of his life true he came and went and he made journeys of one sort or another but they were never far distant or protracted in leipzig he created his grandest his most colossal and also his profoundest and subtlest works his duties were incredibly numerous and often heartbreakingly heavy he was responsible it has been said to all and to none again and again he had the rector of the st thomas school the city council the church consistory and yet others about his ears he had to look after the musical services in four churches two of them the most important in the town under exasperating conditions he had to teach turbulent and ruffianly pupils he had to combat official ill-will and intrigue for the performances he was obliged to conduct he had vocal and instrumental forces that strike us as laughably inadequate and were in numberless cases grossly unskilled the demands on his physical and spiritual strength must have been appalling yet bach appears to have had the resources and the resistance of a giant we know that over and over again his temper his obstinate nature and inborn pugnacity were tried to the uttermost but in the face of all irritations he was earning enough his home life was comfortable he met and entertained artists he had the satisfaction of knowing that his sons could enjoy the educational advantages of leipzig and he gradually gathered about him a company of greatly gifted young students and devoted disciples in the course of years he shifted some of his most unsympathetic duties to other shoulders how he could otherwise have written the gigantic amount of music he did is an unanswerable question for consider he came to leipsic the composer of about thirty church cantatas when he died in seventeen fifty he had produced there two hundred and sixty-five more of this staggering total two hundred and ninety five two hundred and two have come down to us as if this were not enough these cantatas incidentally were week to week obligations his years at leipsic account for many secular cantatas six motets five masses including the titanic one in b minor the passions according to st john and st matthew not to mention lost ones the christmas oratorio the resplendent magnificat the easter and ascension oratorios besides clavier works like the italian concerto the goldberg variations the second book of the well-tempered clavier and an incredible mass of other things the rector of st thomas's school during bach's first years in leipzig was johann heinrich ernesti with whom bach's relations were cordial enough though the rector was a slipshod disciplinarian matters remained pleasant enough under johann gesner but presently the latter left st thomas to assume a more profitable post at gttingen his successor johann august ernesti quickly proceeded to stroke bach's fur the wrong way by declaring that altogether too much attention was given to the study of music so you want to be a pot-house fiddler he used to say to youths he found practising the violin it was only a question of time when the surly new rector and the combustible bach would come into collision What has been called the Battle of the Prefects was long drawn out and bitter.

The details need not detain us.

Trouble was intensified by the appointment to a responsible position of a person named Kraus, whom Bach had angrily described as ein liederlicher Hund, a dissolute dog.

He used the title of Emperor of the Romans, Imperator Romanorum, and his seal was inscribed with the legend Renovatio Imperii Romanorum, Renewal of the Empire of the Romans.

He revived the Roman offices of Patrician and Prefect and aimed at restoring the Roman Senate.

He built himself a palace at Rome on the Aventine Hill and introduced new high-sounding Greek titles at his court.

Yet in all his dreams and projects, he thought and worked as a Christian emperor in close harmony with the Pope.

It faced longstanding accusations of impure problems, physical, psychological, and spiritual abuse, plus financial issues.

Prevost as Bishop of Chiclayo and later Prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops, met victims, facilitated Vatican involvement, and helped advance the process that led Pope Francis to expel leaders, including Figari and Archbishop José Antonio Ugerin, and formally suppress the group in 2025.

Note the timetable, at the same time that they're hand-waving away the accusations against Luté.

Weird how that works out.