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 Jew and the son of an immigrant”. Judaism to Catholicism Born Aaron Lustiger in Paris on 17 September 1926, he was the eldest child…