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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, Aug. 5 — Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was born to Polish Jews, converted to Roman Catholicism as a boy, then rose to become leader of the French church and an adviser to Pope John Paul II, ...

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was the son of a Holocaust victim and converted from Judaism to become France's most influential Catholic of recent decades, has died, church officials said today.

FRANCE: France bade farewell to Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger yesterday in a ceremony that mixed prayers from his Jewish roots with the rites of the Catholic Church, a faith to which he converted ...

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 ...

“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 ...

PARIS – Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and rose through church hierarchy to become one of the most influential Roman Catholic figures in France, died Sunday, the ...

Today marks the funeral in Paris of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who died on Sunday at the age of 80 after a two-year bout with an aggressive form of cancer. By any standard, Lustiger was a towering ...

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.

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 ...

PARIS — Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was born to Polish Jews, converted to Roman Catholicism as a boy, then rose to become leader of the French church and an adviser to Pope John Paul II, died ...