Pacelli reports to Gasparri the agreement reached with Minister President Hoffmann about presentation rights for new parish pastor appointments, despite the “sustained difficulties of the persistent regalistic tendencies of this Minister - Nov. 10, 1919
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Nov. 10, 1919 Pacelli reports to Gasparri the agreement reached with Minister President Hoffmann about presentation rights for new parish pastor appointments, despite the “sustained difficulties of the persistent regalistic tendencies of this Minister.”
English translation of reportReport of same agreement by Faulhaber to his fellow Bavarian Bishops, in English translation
Nov. 10, 1919 Pacelli to Gasparri:
Re: Provisional solution for the presentation of vacant parishes in Bavaria
Most Reverend Eminence,
I have the honor to inform Your Most Reverend Eminence that, despite the sustained difficulties of the persistent regalistic tendencies of this Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, I have been able to gain the acceptance by Mr. Hoffmann in writing, in conformity to the venerated instructions transmitted to me by encrypted cable no. 201, for the following formula about the presentation of parishes in Bavaria: “The presentation by the Bavarian Government of vacant parishes that are so-called patronato of the State (1) and acceptance of those that are considered “libera collazione” (2) will provisionally take place as before, it being agreed however that this cannot constitute a precedent for the definitive resolution of this question.”
This provisional solution was immediately communicated by me with a Circular to the Most Reverend Bavarian Archbishops and Bishops.
In sending this agreement to Your Eminence, I humbly bow to kiss the Sacred Purple …
Source: Pacelli-Edition.de, Dokt. No. 253
November 10, 1919 Faulhaber to the Bavarian Bishops:
Simultaneous with the present communication, the Most Reverend Gentlemen of the Apostolic Nunciature are receiving the information that now, after long interactive negotiations between the Nunciature and the Government, with agreement of the Holy Father, an agreement has been reached that for re-appointments to vacant parishes of both categories, for the time being, the previous modality – thus also with a three-candidate recommended list for benefices with local nobility presentation rights – can and shall be maintained. The agreement was decreed in writing as a purely temporary measure, by which the final measure is in no way anticipated and without prejudice to the legal position of either side as to this issue...
Military chaplaincy. From April 1, 1920 on, the Bavarian group of the Reich Army will have only one Division Chaplain, and that in Munich. In all other garrison locations, chaplaincy in the Army will have to be a part of civilian pastoral care, as provided according to Art. 140 and 141 of the Reich Constitution. I may certainly count on the agreement of the Most Reverend Lord Bishops as I express myself to the Lord Cardinal of Cologne and the local Reich Army Command with the statement, “the Military Chaplaincy in Bavaria may under no circumstances be placed under the jurisdiction of the Prussian Military Chaplain, rather the Military Chaplains remain under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of the locality.”
Source: Nachlass Faulhaber, No. 4300, reprinted in L. Volk, ed., vol. 1, pp. 107-108.