Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Christians and Jews

Download or read book Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Christians and Jews written by Jean-Marie Lustiger and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects a variety of important speeches and interviews of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, "the Jewish cardinal." Born to secular Jewish parents, he insisted that his Jewish identity could not be erased by his baptism, his ordinations to the priesthood and the episcopate, or his elevation to the cardinalate. This belief led him not only to explain his own life, but also to work to establish new relationships between Jews and Catholics in the wake of Vatican II and the interreligious efforts of Pope John Paul II. Included in this volume are several of Lustiger's most important addresses. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger was born Aron Lustiger in Paris in 1926, the son of Polish Jews. In 1940, young Aron decided to ask for baptism, taking up the Christian first name Jean-Marie. He was ordained a priest in 1954. In 1979 he was appointed bishop of Orléans and, later, archbishop of Paris. He was created a cardinal in 1983 and elected to the Académie française in 1995. He died in 2007. Book jacket.