Walter Kasper
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His Eminence Walter Kasper |
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| President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity | |
Cardinal Kasper (left) with Cardinal Danneels
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| See | Rottenburg-Stuttgart (Emeritus) |
| Appointed | 3 March 2001 |
| Installed | 21 April 2005 |
| Term ended | 1 July 2010 |
| Predecessor | Edward Idris Cassidy |
| Successor | Kurt Koch |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova |
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| Ordination | 6 April 1957 by Carl Joseph Leiprecht |
| Consecration | 17 June 1989 by Oskar Saier |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 by Pope John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Walter Kasper |
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5 March 1933 Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Veritatem in caritate ("truth in charity") |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Walter Kasper (born 5 March 1933) is a German Roman Catholic Cardinal and theologian. He is President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, having served as its president from 2001 to 2010. Since the death of Carlo Maria Martini, he has become one of the main figures of the liberal wing of the Catholic Church.
Born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany, Kasper was ordained a priest on 6 April 1957 by Bishop Carl Leiprecht of Rottenburg.
From 1957 to 1958 he was a parochial vicar in Stuttgart. He returned to his studies and earned a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the University of Tübingen. He was a faculty member at Tübingen from 1958 to 1961 and worked for three years as an assistant to the conservative Leo Scheffczyk and the liberal Hans Küng, who was banned from teaching by Vatican authorities owing to his critical views on contraception and papal infallibility.
He later taught dogmatic theology at the Westphalian University of Münster (1964–1970), rising to become dean of the theological faculty in 1969 and then the same in Tübingen in 1970. In 1983 Kasper taught as a visiting professor at The Catholic University of America. He was editor of the Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche.
Kasper was named Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany's fourth largest Catholic diocese, on 17 April 1989. He was consecrated as a bishop on 17 June that same year by Archbishop Oskar Saier of Freiburg im Breisgau; Bishops Karl Lehmann and Franz Kuhnle served as co-consecrators. In 1993 he and other members of the German episcopate signed a pastoral letter which urged allowing divorced and civilly remarried German Catholics to return to the sacraments, to the disapproval of then Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II. In 1994, he was named co-chair of the International Commission for Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue.
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