Cardinal Lustiger: Judaism to Catholicism

A Jewish convert to Catholicism who rose to become Archbishop of Paris and a close ally of Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Lustiger(1926-2007) died aged eighty. He was the only Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism to become a French bishop in modern times. He summarised his own life by saying that he had been “a cardinal, a...

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Tribute to a Great Man: Nelson Mandela

After twenty-seven years in prison, emerging as a man of singular vision, Nelson Mandela negotiated the dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa, settled an agreement on universal suffrage and democratic elections and became the first black President of the country in 1994. Tribute to a Great Man Nearly fifty years ago in a very...

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