Feast 23 February | Name Peter Fehlner | |
Books Virgin Mother: The Great Sign, St. Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity - Pneumatolgist: His Theology of the Holy Spirit | ||
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Peter Fehlner, also known as Peter Damien Mary Fehlner, is a Catholic priest. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual. After his Franciscan and theological formation and several years of ministry in this Order, he joined the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate during some years, but he has recently professed again the Rule and the Constitutions of ancient Franciscan Conventual Order. Fehlner is a theologian and mariologist. In 2014, he began serving as rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is also a professor of theology in the Franciscans' Institute of Ecclesiastical Studies, the Immaculatum (STIM) in Frigento, Italy. A scholar in the Franciscan tradition of theology, he focuses primarily on the philosophical and theological traditions of St. Bonaventure, Bl. John Duns Scotus and St. Maximilian Kolbe.
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- Early life education and ordination
- Theological career
- Selected works
- References
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Early life, education and ordination
Fehlner is a native of Dolgeville, New York. He was ordained in Rome in 1957. He completed a Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Seraphicum, with a thesis about the Ecclesiology of St. Bonaventure.
Theological career
Fehler has taught dogmatic theology and Mariology in Franciscan seminaries and universities in the United States and in Italy for 40 years. He is the author of several books and has contributed to theological and pastoral journals in the United States and Europe. From 1985 to 1989 he was the editor of Militia Immaculatae (Rome), a Marian review for the clergy. He has written and lectured extensively on Franciscan theology and Mariology. His most recent series on Our Lady "Mater et Magistra" has been featured weekly on Mother Angelica's EWTN.
He served as North American Regional Superior (Delegatus Generalis) of the Institute of Pontifical Right of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate from 1996 until 2002.
Fehler is a Kolbean scholar. He has explained and defended the teachings of St. Maximilian Kolbe against theologians and mariologists who consider the Saint to be a heretic or a pious journalist. He has written and spoken in support of the fifth Marian Dogma, the Blessed Virgin Mary's roles as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate.