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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 18:49:03+00:00

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In the German state of Bavaria the children used to attend state-supported primary schools that were separated into Catholic and Protestant. This divisive systen has been retained in Northern Ireland to this day, due in large measure to the opposition of the Catholic Church.  However, in 1968 the people of Bavaria voted in a referendum to abolish separate schooling.
When the Catholic Church was obliged to give up its state-subsidised primary schools in Bavaria, it wanted compensation for its loss of influence on Catholic schoolchildren. To this end the 1924 Bavarian Concordat was revised to add some clauses on Church control of Catholic education. Among these was the creation of “concordat chairs”. These were originally set up in teachers’ colleges to ensure that those who taught the teachers of Catholic religion classes had been approved by the local bishop. However, now many of these teachers' colleges, these professorships at state universities extend Church influence far beyond the teaching Catholic theology.
A “concordat chair” can be occupied only by a professor to whom the local bishop raises “no objection”. It can be in philosophy, pedagogy, sociology or politics, and the approved candidate is expected to teach these academic subjects in line with Catholic doctrine. This even includes “applied philosophy” whose professors train ethics teachers, even though ethics is the alternative for pupils who don’t wish to take religion classes.
When Professor Joseph Ratzinger could no longer take the relative rowdiness of the faculty of dogmatic theology in Tübingen, he withdrew in 1969 to a safe chair of Catholic theology in Bavaria. Such professors are monitored by the Church even more closely, (in fact, continuously), than the occupant of a “concordat chair”. These theology professors also fall under the Bavarian concordat. If at any time the bishop “finds fault” with one of them because of “his doctrine or his moral conduct”, he is to be replaced “irrespective of his rights as a [tenured] civil servant”.
The Vatican set out its requirements for Catholic faculties of theology to conform to Church doctrine in John Paul II's 1979 Sapientia Christiana, which builds upon Canons 815-821. Thus the Bavarian Concordat ensures state cooperation in enforcing Church Law on largely publicly-supported faculties of Catholic theology.
It's even believed that, at least for the teaching of theology, women are not seen by the bishops as acceptable.
These clauses of the Bavarian concordat not only ensure doctrinal conformity in the teachers' personal lives, and keep Catholic their teaching completely orthodox, but also ensure that the occupants of “concordat chairs” do not emphasise aspects of the social sciences which might conflict with Catholic doctrine. And this is at state universities.
The Catholic Church confirmed on 8 May 2008 that it has vetoed the nominee to run the German-speaking world's only Catholic university which is located in Eichstatt. The local bishop had already approved the appointment, but the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly known as the Inquisition) has refused to confirm him in office. The Catholic University is located in Bavaria at Eichstätt. It was formed in 1980 from several pre-existing institutions and its ground rules are set out in the Bavarian concordat.
At state universities, the president of the Catholic University is chosen by the university council and then, because it is under “Church administration”, approved by the local bishop. He, of course, of course needs final clearance from the Vatican. The Catholic University’s president is also formally approved by the Minister of Science. However, as was noted in a leading German paper, if this elected politician were to refuse to confirm the chosen scholar there would be an uproar. Yet this Vatican-controlled university costs the taxpayers dear, since according to Article 2.1 of the Concordat with Bavaria, the state pays 85-90% of the University's costs.
The man who until recently was president-elect, Ulrich Hempel, has had a brilliant academic career, but that hasn’t helped him here and the reasons are not far to seek. Hempel left a seminary after five years of training for the priesthood and since then has been married three times. He is also known to be critical of Benedict XVI. In Church circles it is said that “Hempel is not obedient and humble enough”.  Now, by means of the 1924 Bavarian concordat, the Vatican can make him pay for this.
This part of the concordat allows the Church to fire any theology professor whose ideas or conduct displease them. It also sets up professorships at state universities in Catholic Theology, Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Candidates for these positions are vetted by the local bishop.
This article was inserted into the Bavarian concordat after 1980, when the Catholic University was founded. In 2001 its name was changed to the “Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt”. From the start it was intended to be administered by the Church, but subsidised 85 to 90% by the taxpayer.
♦ How far can German churches discriminate against over a million employees?
* Ludwig Volk, “Die Kirche in den deutschsprachigen Ländern” in Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte, 1985, vol. 7, p. 539.
This concerns the only university-track school in the area, the Kolleg der Schulbrüder Illertissen.
3. Gerhard Czermak, Religions- und Weltanschauungsrecht: Eine Einführung, 2008, § 17 Staatlich-kirchliche Einrichtungen, I. Staatliche Theologische Fakultäten und Konkordatslehrstühle, 5. Konkordatslehrstühle, (Manuscript kindly supplied by the author).
According to Dr. Czermak “concordat chairs” contravene constitutional requirements for neutrality by violating separation of church and state (Art. 137 I WRV [Weimar Constitution]/ Art. 140 GG [Griundgesetz]), equal access to public office (Art. 33 III GG and Art. 136 II WRV/ Art. 140 GG) and freedom of scholarship and teaching (Art. 5 III GG). He says that they also contravene the German antidiscrimination law, Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (§ 1, § 3, § 9) and the Antidiscrimination Directive of the European Union.
“Neuordnung für Katholisch-Theologische Fakultäten in Bayern: Zusatzprotokoll zum Bayerischen Konkordat in München unterzeichnet”, Diocese of Wuerzburg, signed 19 January, ratified 8 June 2007.

References: § 17
 Art. 140
 Art. 136
 Art. 140
 § 3
 § 9