Walter Brandmüller [SEP] position held
Walter Brandmüller
Walter Brandmüller (born 5 January 1929) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2009. He was president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences from 1998 to 2009.
Early life.
Brandmüller was born in 1929 in Ansbach, Germany. His father was Roman Catholic and his mother was Protestant. Brandmuller was baptized as a Protestant and converted to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism in his adolescence. He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich in 1963, he earned a doctorate
they must first name the text they require, a serious problem for those who do not know what is contained by the library. The Pope responded on April 13, 2006:
Spokespersons say the Vatican does not wish to suppress the Gospel of Judas; rather, according to Monsignor Walter Brandmüller, president of the Vatican's Committee for Historical Science, "We welcome the [manuscript] like we welcome the critical study of any text of ancient literature."
Even more explicitly, Father Thomas D. Williams, Dean of