Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Christians and Jews (Studies in Judaism and Christianity)

This volume collects a variety of important speeches and interviews from Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish Cardinal. Born to secular Jewish parents, he insisted that his Jewish identity could not be erased by his baptism, his ordinations to the priesthood and the episcopate, or his elevation to the cardinalate. This belief led him not only to explain his own life, but also to work to establish new relationships between Jews and Catholics in the wake of Vatican II and the inter-religious efforts of Pope John Paul II. Included in this volume are several of Lustiger s most important addresses.