Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris and one of the key players on the European stage during the second half of the 20th century, died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 80.

AT THE funeral of Jean-Marie Lustiger, at Notre Dame de Paris on August 10th, his second cousin Jonas Moses-Lustiger read a psalm in Hebrew and placed on the coffin a jar of earth that had been ...

In a personally signed telegram, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his profound sorrow at the passion of Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, who he described as a man of faith and of ...

Retired Roman Catholic Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, the longtime archbishop of Paris whose prominence in France, in his church and in Western culture owed much to his faith, his intellect and his ...

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger's life and death were rich in symbolism. Born to Jewish parents, he converted to Catholicism and rose through the ranks of the church, never forgetting his roots. There ...

PARIS -- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was the son of a Holocaust victim and converted from Judaism to become one of France’s most influential Roman Catholic figures, died Sunday. He was 80.

When Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger died on August 5, 2007, his funeral Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral began with the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It was an unconventional liturgy for a man ...

ROME – Earlier this week, Canadian Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Integral Human development, was in Auschwitz to mark the 80 th anniversary of the death of St.

“The Jewish Cardinal” (“Le Metis de Dieu”), the 2012 French film shown at the New York Film Festival, is a fascinating puzzler. “To become a Christian I did not reject my Judaism” is the mantra of ...

Cardinal Lustiger, who died on Sunday aged 80, was the only Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism to become a French bishop in modern times. Cardinal Lustiger: ‘a cardinal, a Jew and the son of an ...