{"id":6069,"date":"2006-09-06T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/brother-roger-of-taize-catholic-since-72.html"},"modified":"2006-09-06T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T11:12:52","slug":"brother-roger-of-taize-catholic-since-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/brother-roger-of-taize-catholic-since-72.html","title":{"rendered":"Brother Roger of Taize – Catholic since ’72?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article in Le Monde says as much (I think) – in French. Feel free to translate!<\/a><\/p>\n

(The gist of this first paragraph – Cardinal Ratzinger gave Communion to Brother Roger at John Paul II’s funeral. Questions and controversy arose. The engima is solved – he came into communion with the Roman Catholic Church in 1972.) There’s more in the rest of the article.<\/p>\n

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Le 8 avril 2005, lors des obs\u00e8ques du pape Jean Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, futur pape Beno\u00eet XVI, distribua la communion aux personnalit\u00e9s pr\u00e9sentes. Parmi eux, Roger Schutz, fondateur de la communaut\u00e9 \u0153cum\u00e9nique de Taiz\u00e9, officiellement pasteur de l’Eglise r\u00e9form\u00e9e. Le cardinal Ratzinger, pr\u00e9fet de la Congr\u00e9gation pour la doctrine de la foi, qui avait toujours refus\u00e9 l’accueil des protestants \u00e0 la communion catholique, faisait-il une exception ? L’\u00e9nigme est r\u00e9solue. L’historien Yves Chiron, dans le num\u00e9ro d’ao\u00fbt de la lettre d’information mensuelle Aletheia<\/em> qu’il publie, r\u00e9v\u00e8le que Fr\u00e8re Roger, mort assassin\u00e9 le 16 ao\u00fbt 2005, \u00e9tait converti au catholicisme depuis 1972. Ce fait lui a \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9 par Mgr Raymond S\u00e9guy, ancien \u00e9v\u00eaque d’Autun (Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire), dioc\u00e8se dans lequel se trouve Taiz\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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