Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, le Cardinal Juif" ...
The pope appointed him archbishop of Paris in January 1981, and if the French clergy were surprised, the appointee felt burdened. “For me,” he told an interviewer, “this nomination was as if, all of a sudden, the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.”
In an early interview as archbishop, he said: “I was born Jewish, and so I remain, even if that is unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That is my hope, and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.”
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The pope appointed him archbishop of Paris in January 1981, and if the French clergy were surprised, the appointee felt burdened. “For me,” he told an interviewer, “this nomination was as if, all of a sudden, the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.”
In an early interview as archbishop, he said: “I was born Jewish, and so I remain, even if that is unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That is my hope, and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.”
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But the cardinal’s boyhood decision to be baptized never sat well with some Jewish leaders.
In 1995, while he was visiting Israel, Yisrael Meir Lau, the Ashkenazic chief rabbi and a concentration camp survivor, said Cardinal Lustiger had “betrayed his people and his faith during the most difficult and darkest of periods” in the 1940s. The rabbi dismissed the assertion that the cardinal had remained a Jew.
In 1995, while he was visiting Israel, Yisrael Meir Lau, the Ashkenazic chief rabbi and a concentration camp survivor, said Cardinal Lustiger had “betrayed his people and his faith during the most difficult and darkest of periods” in the 1940s. The rabbi dismissed the assertion that the cardinal had remained a Jew.
In response, the cardinal said:
“To say that I am no longer a Jew is like denying my father and mother, my grandfathers and grandmothers. I am as Jewish as all the other members of my family who were butchered in Auschwitz or in the other camps.” ... "
(>> unul din multele obituare: Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal, Dies at 80 )
Le jeune Jonas Moses Lustiger, arrière petit cousin du cardinal, dépose de la terre de Jérusalem et de Jéricho sur le cercueil. Puis il prononce quelques paroles personnelles d'adieu à son parent rencontré récemment à la maison de soins Jeanne Garnier. Et enchaîne sur la lecture d'un psaume en hébreu. L'émotion est alors intense.
Un alt obituar, nu doar omagial, care capteaza si imaginea neconventionala a Cardinalului Jean-Marie Lustiger (facind chiar o paralela cu accidentalul papa Wojtyla, pe care l-a acompaniat in pelegrinarile misionare in jurul lumii ):
The Conservative Revolutionary , WSJ Aug.10, 2007
(>> unul din multele obituare: Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal, Dies at 80 )
Le jeune Jonas Moses Lustiger, arrière petit cousin du cardinal, dépose de la terre de Jérusalem et de Jéricho sur le cercueil. Puis il prononce quelques paroles personnelles d'adieu à son parent rencontré récemment à la maison de soins Jeanne Garnier. Et enchaîne sur la lecture d'un psaume en hébreu. L'émotion est alors intense.
Un alt obituar, nu doar omagial, care capteaza si imaginea neconventionala a Cardinalului Jean-Marie Lustiger (facind chiar o paralela cu accidentalul papa Wojtyla, pe care l-a acompaniat in pelegrinarile misionare in jurul lumii ):
The Conservative Revolutionary , WSJ Aug.10, 2007
2 comments:
Aaron Lustiger era o figura remarcabila,
un erudit, evreu, cardinal catolic, si peste toate, ... laic.
Iata un interview mai vechi de-al lui.
Interesant interviu. Mersi Sehe!
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