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Leroy Matthiesen

Leroy Matthiesen (June 11, 1921 - March 22, 2010) was a Catholic bishop in the United States. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo in the state of Texas from 1980 to 1997.
==Biography==
Leroy Theodore Matthiesen was born June 11, 1921, in Olfen, Texas,
and died in Amarillo, Texas
on March 22,
2010. He was ordained as
a priest for
the Diocese of Amarillo on March 10, 1946.
After receiving a Master’s degree in journalism
in 1948, he was appointed editor of the diocesan newspaper ''The West Texas Catholic,''
which featured his column “Wise and Otherwise” until 1998.
In 1954 he became the founding pastor of St.
Laurence Parish in Amarillo. In
1961 he
received another Master’s degree, this time in secondary school
administration,and in 1962 was appointed rector of St. Lucian’s
Preparatory Seminary in
Amarillo.
He
was awarded a Doctorate of Letters in Journalism in
1961, and in 1968 he was named Principal of Alamo Catholic High
School. In addition, for
nine years he was pastor of
St. Francis Parish near Amarillo.
Consecrated Bishop of the Amarillo Diocese in 1980, he served
until his retirement in 1997.

As
bishop, he took several controversial stands for a
consistent pro-life ethic, most notably a call to conscience to the
workers of Pantex—the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in
the U.S., as well as
a call for a stay of execution for a man convicted of killing a nun in
an Amarillo convent.

In
his retirement he published three books:
''Wise
and'' ''Otherwise: The Life
and Times of
a Cottonpicking Texas Bishop'' (in 2004); ''The
Golden
Years: The'' ''History of St.
Laurence Cathedral in Amarillo ''(2005); and'' Lieber Bernard und Elise: The Lives and Times of a German Texas Family
''(2009).

Bishop
Matthiesen received many honors in his
lifetime. Among them was
the Isaac
Hecker Award for Social Justice in 1984 and the Ketteler Award for
Social Justice in 2002. In
2009, he was presented
with the Teacher of Peace Award from Pax Christi USA, which promotes
nonviolence, disarmament and human rights.

In
his speech to Pax Christi members, accepting the
peace award, Bishop Matthiesen spoke of his conversion to deep peace.
After a personal challenge by Sister Regina
Foppe in 1981, “There came," he said, "a barrage of wake-up calls,the
first as I was praying Psalm 33.
When I read the stanza, ‘A vain hope for safety is the horse;
despite its power it cannot save,’ something, someone—was it the
Spirit? --tricked me
into praying, ‘A vain hope for safety is the nuclear bomb; despite its
power it cannot save.’ I
shook that off, but then
came an onslaught of voices and people.
By year’s end they had me fully involved in the debate about
the morality of the production, assembly, deployment of nuclear
weapons and the
ability and intent we had and still have of destroying the society of
aggressor nations.”

He
then urged the other U.S. Catholic Bishops “to do
what we promised to do in our 1983 pastoral letter, 'The Challenge of
Peace:God’s Promise and Our Response', namely, that once the Cold War
was over and
the circumstances no longer existed that led us to give strictly
conditioned moral approval of the possession of nuclear weapons as a
deterrent to
aggression, we would withdraw our approval.
In effect, we would not only…consign the just war theory to the
dust bin of history, but along with it our conditioned blessing on the
possession of nuclear
weapons.”

Bishop
Matthiesen asked everyone to pledge themselves
“to abolish not only nuclear weapons, but war itself, and with it
torture, the death penalty, homophobia, racism, sexism, retributive
justice, the chasm
between the greedy and homeless and hungry poor, and to reduce resort
to abortion.”

Consistent
with the ecumenical vision of the Second
Vatican Council, Bishop Matthiesen worked collaboratively with other
denominations and religions, as well as secular organizations devoted
to peace
and social justice. He
was a strong
supporter of the Peace Farm, an organization formed in witness to
nuclear bomb assembly at neighboring Pantex.

At
the time of his death, Bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen
was an internationally known man of conscience.

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