Boniface Wimmer, in a letter to young theologian in Germany in 1849: “Our German youths who want to become priests do not have a single institution where they could study, where they could receive priestly formation, in order to keep their German brothers in their Catholic faith. But, no! They Read more
In a letter to a theology student in Munich, Boniface Wimmer wrote: “Here the fate of the world will be decided, as well as the destiny of the Church, and quickly, at that. In decades things get done here which elsewhere did not happen in centuries. I believe the entire Read more
The following description of the monastic vows ceremony from 1849 can be compared to that in 2024. Not much has changed. “An occurrence as happy as it is important to be noted occurred on April 15, 1849. On that day the first members of the young monastic family were secured Read more
“I have also found several Catholic families who now have no religion at all, and whose children are not even baptized. But they are also the ones who live farthest away from the church… How much care I have already put into talking to them, visiting them, instructing them! And Read more