Frans Haarsma (Balk, 19 July 1921 - Nijmegen, 25 November 2009) was a Catholic priest of Archdiocese Utrecht, Theologian and Professor at the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
The Frisian spiritual descended from a large slaughter family. Haarsma was raised by an uncle and aunt who lived in Bakhuizen and went to the mini-seminar at his twelfth.
After his priesthood dedication, he first taught dogmatism at the large seminar Rijsenburg (Driebergen). When all the seminars were lifted in 1967, the University of Nijmegen reached Haarsma for education in the pastoral theology; Haarsma did not feel at home as a dogmatician but he took over. After being promoted at the work of the protestant theologian O. Noordmans, he remained professor in Nijmegen.
In the years before, after and after the Second Vatican Council, he was closely involved in virtually anything on the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. In the seventies he was chairman of the St. Willibrord Society for the oecums. In those years, his name became a possible successor to Cardinal Alfrink.
Unlike many others in his spiritual profession, Haarsma remained faithful to his Church, though it is highly criticized and concerned with the policies of the Dutch bishops. In his publications like Morren against Moses and Candlestick and corners, he testifies. Like the divorce bundle of colleagues' future for the church?
Haarsma had been in all publicity to the feminist theologian and colleague at the same university (until later), Catharina Halkes (1920-2011) until his death for decades. She and her children signed the death ad together with the Haarsma family. Working
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