The Tocqueville Fellows and students in Constitutional Studies will welcome to breakfast His Eminence, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Cardinal-Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. The Tocqueville Fellows is a program that cultivates a spirit and ethic of citizenship among a select group of intellectually diverse Notre Dame undergraduates. The fellowship seeks to identify, educate, and mentor future leaders of industry, public affairs, and the Church. During their tenure as Tocqueville Fellows, students attend the Center’s lectures and debates, participate in student colloquia, and engage in spirited conversation with a range of invited guests, including leading academics, and practitioners in law, politics, theology, and public life.
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller is Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg and Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. His extensive service to the Church includes sixteen years as professor of dogmatic theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (1986 to 2002), as well as his appointments as peritus (theological consultant) of the Special Synod for Europe; president of the Commission for Ecumenical Relations of the German Bishops’ Conference and resumed theological discussions between the German Bishops’ Conference and the Moscow Patriarchate, and Catholic head to the International Lutheran/Roman Catholic Commission on Unity. From July 2nd 2012 to July 1st 2017, he was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei," of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and of the International Theological Commission. He also founded the Pope Benedict XVI institute, responsible for publishing the complete works of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).