I can still remember the silent and very moving early Masses on my own in the choir of the Franciscan church in Lucerne and the ten-o'clock Mass in the Jesuit church, which I thought was stunningly beautiful." Īs a child, Hans and his family spent much time at the hotel Pension Felsberg, which his grandmother managed. I grew up with a faith that was equally straightforward, untroubled by doubt. Hans Urs would later describe his family as "straightforwardly Catholic. Their daughter Renée (1908–1986) became the superior general of the Franciscan Sisters of Sainte-Marie des Anges. Their son Dieter would join the Swiss Guard. Pietzcker was related to the beatified Hungarian bishop Blessed Vilmos Apor, who was shot by Soviet troops in 1945 while trying to protect women from drunken Soviet soldiers. 1929), helped found the Schweizerischer Katholischer Frauenbund (Swiss League of Catholic Women). His father, Oscar Ludwig Carl von Balthasar (1872–1946), was a church architect, and his mother, Gabrielle Pietzcker (d. Life and career Early life įranziskanerkirche (Franciscan Church) in Lucerne, Switzerlandīalthasar was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 12 August 1905, to a noble family.
He is known for his 15-volume trilogy on beauty ( The Glory of the Lord), goodness ( Theo-Drama), and truth ( Theo-Logic). Over the course of his life, he authored 85 books, over 500 articles and essays, and almost 100 translations. With Ratzinger and Henri de Lubac, he founded the theological journal Communio.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) said in his funeral oration for Balthasar that "he is right in what he teaches of the faith" and that he "points the way to the sources of living water". Pope John Paul II announced his choice of Balthasar to become a cardinal, but he died shortly before the consistory. Hans Urs von Balthasar (12 August 1905 – 26 June 1988) was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who is considered an important Catholic theologian of the 20th century.
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