#Mourning

Germany: Berlin, on Thursday March 22nd the president of the Bishops Conference will officiate a “Requiem Mass” for card. Lehmann. Funeral service in Mainz the day before

Stephen Hawking: Card. Nichols (Catholic primate), “extraordinary contribution to knowledge”

Stephen Hawking: Anglican Primate Welby and Archbishop of York Sentamu remember him. “Giant of humanity”

Stephen Hawking: Br Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory) to SIR, “he gave a human face to the work of astronomical cosmology”

Card. Lehmann: Card. Schönborn, “weighty figure in the post-war German Church”

Card. Lehmann: died yesterday in Mainz aged 81. Card. Marx (DBK), “he has significantly shaped the Catholic Church across the world”

Upon the death of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. His friend Walter Kasper: a faithful companion in theology, in the Episcopal ministry and in ecumenical commitment

Cardinal Walter Kasper remembered with SIR his friend who passed away yesterday morning (March 11), in Magonza, at the age…

On the death of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. Marx (German bishops): “He shaped the Catholic Church worldwide”

His health conditions had deteriorated, he had been hit by a stroke last September. A few days ago, Msgr. Peter…

Austria: national mourning over death of Ute Bock, a volunteer supporting refugees. Mgr Landau (Caritas), “she restored hope to many”

UK: mgr. Longley (Bishop of Birmingham) commemorates card. Murphy-O’Connor. Indefatigable efforts for the unity of Christians

Charlie Gard. Intertwined hands

Now the smaller hand has left the grip,  without voice nor words it sung and suffered Nunc dimittis, transmitting the…