Aloísio Lorscheider
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| His Eminence Aloísio Lorscheider O.F.M. |
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Cdl. Aloísio Lorscheider.
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| Archdiocese | Aparecida |
| See | Aparecida |
| Appointed | 12 July 1995 |
| Term ended | 28 July 2004 |
| Predecessor | Geraldo María de Morais Penido |
| Successor | Raymundo Damasceno Assis |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio (1976-2007) |
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| Ordination | 22 August 1948 |
| Consecration | 20 May 1962 by Alfredo Vicente Scherer |
| Created Cardinal | 24 May 1976 by Pope Paul VI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider |
| Born | 8 October 1924 Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Denomination | Catholic |
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| Motto | In cruce salus et vita |
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Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. (8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a prominent cardinal of the Catholic Church in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s. He was renowned as an advocate of liberation theology in the 1970s and was seen by some observers as a serious candidate for the papacy in the two conclaves of 1978.
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Early life and ordination
Lorscheider was of German descent, born in Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He entered the local Franciscan minor seminary of Taquari at the age of nine years. He began his novitiate in December 1942 and was ordained as a priest on 22 August 1948.
Professor and bishop
He taught a number of subjects – German, mathematics, Latin – but it was not long before he went to Rome to study dogmatic theology. Lorscheider received his doctorate in 1952, and returned to Brazil to teach that same subject at the Franciscan Seminary of Divinopolis.
In 1958 Lorscheider was called back to Rome to teach, and in 1962 made bishop of Santo Ângelo. Lorscheider attended the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965, and he was named Archbishop of Fortaleza in the northeastern state of Ceará in 1973.
Cardinal
As Lorscheider grew in popularity with his flock and his ability as a prelate was recognised, Pope Paul VI gave him a cardinal's hat in May 1976, becoming Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Montorio. Although at the time he was the fourth-youngest cardinal in the college, Lorscheider already doubted his own health. However, some oddsmakers with Ladbrokes (who had him at odds of 33 to 1) considered him a serious papabile in the August 1978 conclave.
Lorscheider headed the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops from 1971 to 1978. He led the Latin American Episcopal Conference in 1976.[1]
In 1995, Pope John Paul II named Lorscheider Archbishop of Aparecida in São Paulo State. He resigned the pastoral government of the Aparecida archdiocese at the beginning of 2004.
It is also thought Lorscheider was one of the most vital supporters of Albino Luciani's rise to the papacy, and also of Karol Wojtyła's in the October 1978 conclave.[1]
After the death of John Paul II in 2005, Lorscheider said that the European cardinals' "sense of superiority" would not allow them to elect a non-European pope.[2] In poor health and ineligible to vote because he was over the age of 80, he did not attend the pre-conclave discussions at the 2005 conclave that elected Joseph Ratzinger to succeed John Paul II.
Death
He died on 23 December 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil after a long hospitalization.[1]
Liberation theology
He defended Leonardo Boff when that theologian was brought to heel by Joseph Ratzinger in the 1980s, and continued his strong social activism, being jailed briefly in 1993 as a result of participating in a protest against government policy.
With the crackdown on dissent in the John Paul II papacy, especially after Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) became prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1981, Lorscheider found himself opposing brother cardinals whom he had been very firmly associated with during the Montini papacy.
During his Church career, he developed his outspoken stance on the appalling poverty that blighted the region. He believed that the Church was obliged to take a firm stand against this poverty and his hard-working and personable character allowed him to develop links with the poor that he observed to be lacking in previous generations of priests. He was a vehement critic of Brazil's military dictatorship and its torture of political opponents and favoured a flexible approach to church structure.
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- Biography
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- Obituary in The Times, January 14, 2008
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- 1924 births
- 2007 deaths
- Brazilian cardinals
- Participants in the Second Vatican Council
- Brazilian people of German descent
- Brazilian Friars Minor
- Franciscan cardinals
- People from Rio Grande do Sul
- Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI
- 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil
- Liberation theologians
- Roman Catholic archbishops of Aparecida
- Roman Catholic archbishops of Fortaleza
- Roman Catholic bishops of Santo Ângelo
- Brazilian expatriates in Italy
