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 ...

This line — uttered by the chief rabbi of Paris to the Catholic archbishop of that city in Israeli-born filmmaker Ilan Duran Cohen’s biographical film The Jewish Cardinal — expresses a widely held ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a confidant of Pope John Paul II and a Jewish convert to Catholicism who lost his mother at Auschwitz, has retired as archbishop of Paris at age 78, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France bade farewell to Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Friday in a ceremony that mixed prayers from his Jewish roots with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, a faith to which he ...