The former Archbishop of Paris André Vingt-Trois, with a frank position, died

Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, former archbishop of Paris, died this Friday at the age of 82. Meanwhile, He had established himself as one of the most influential personalities of the episcopate with political skill. However, pinches-old distance, without fear of descending into the arena on social subjects.

“For many of us. Moreover. Therefore, priests, deacons, faithful in Paris, he was much more than our archbishop, but a pastor, a father, an example,” said the current archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich in a press release announcing his death in Paris. Similarly, All his life has brought back André Vingt-Trois to Paris. Meanwhile, the most important diocese in France with its Notre-Dame cathedral, its 500 priests and its hundred parishes. Nevertheless, He was the archbishop between 2005 and 2017, sliding his steps in those of his spiritual father, Cardinal former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, new Lustiger.

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Born on November 7. Furthermore, former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois. Consequently, 1942 in Paris in a Catholic but not practicing family, André Vingt -Trois was raised and educated – he was a student at the Henri IV high school – on the Sainte -Geneviève mountain, named after the boss of the capital. Furthermore, “Bunal childhood” during which he felt the vocation “with his moments of doubt. Therefore. In addition, clarity”, explained this posed man with amused observers a apparently cut for the pontificate, while his origin could come from an orphan ancestor.

Ordained a priest in 1969. For example. he was appointed vicar of a parish priest who will become the dominant figure of the Church of France: Jean-Marie Lustiger. Promoted Archbishop of Paris in 1981. the latter made this young gifted priest for the organization one of his vicars general. under 40, before devoting him former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, new auxiliary bishop seven years later. The discreet twenty-three will have spent 30 years in the shadow of former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, the flamboyant Lustiger.

Archbishop of Tours in 1999, he was not surprised to succeed his mentor in 2005. He definitively took light in 2007. when he was created Cardinal by Benedict XVI after accessing a position that his model had never occupied. the presidency of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF). This ecclesiastics with a classic doctrinal profile – without being traditional – performs two terms there until 2013.

Anti gay marriage. against abortion. euthanasia

A man of action and theological thought more than pastor, he knows how to give claws, under a matt air of Raminagrobis and in an often equan, sometimes laughing tone.

In 2008. he launched. questioned about the female condition in the church: “All, it is not to have a skirt, it is to have something in former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, new your head”. The formula – which he regrets – will remain. giving his name to a skirt committee. an association promoting former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, the role of women in the church. He weighs all his charge as president of the CEF against the bill opening marriage to the same sex couples. “a hoax”.

The cardinal does not lose an opportunity to transmit messages. Thus at the end of July 2016. before the highest authorities in the Republic gathered in Notre-Dame in tribute to Father Jacques Hamel. slaughtered the day before by jihadists, he slips into his homily an accusing sentence on the “silence of the elites before the deviations of manners” and the “legalization of these deviations”. Allusion to the Taubira law that some will judge in such circumstances.

But if he firmly defends the church’s positions against abortion. euthanasia. he also knows how former archbishop paris andré former archbishop paris andré vingt-trois, new vingt-trois, to engage in favor of the most disadvantaged, migrants, interreligious dialogue … A sign of his weight. he will be a member simultaneously of three of the nine Vatican congregations. including that for bishops, which would give him an undeniable influence on the promotion and mutation of his peers.

Pope Francis also testified to him his confidence by appointing him president of the two synods on the family of 2014. 2015. In 2017. as he approaches his resignation due to a limit age – 75 years -. he did not hide his weariness before the heaviness of his obligations and his incessant Paris -Rome voyages. The disease, a neurological syndrome of Guillain-Barré which forced him to a long hospitalization, had still a little more weakened.