"Fervent is the right word to define" card. Jean-Marie Lustiger, emeritus archbishop of Paris, who died on August 5th this year: this was written by Jean-Dominique Durand of the University of Lyons, in a reportage that opens, after the summer holidays, three pages of Sir Europa about the deceased cardinal. According to Durand, "he truly was a Wojtylan bishop: he was not afraid. In particular he was not afraid of criticism, of the harshest attacks, simply because he was never afraid of proclaiming the Gospel". In addition, the cardinal "was not afraid of facing a secularised society"; "of conversing with contemporary culture, with writers and artists who were sometimes alien to faith"; "of wide media coverage"; "of being a great promoter of inter-religious dialogue"; "of opening the service of the Church to lay people and promoting the so-called new movements". In other words, "he was not afraid of shaking a fairly scared Church in France" and "he was no compromising man". So, card. Lustiger, according to Durand, "leaves a deep trace in the life of the Church. It will take some time before we can measure and add up to the richness of his lesson. But he leaves an essential message for the Christians: do not be afraid, because nothing is impossible to God".
