...Jean-Marie Lustiger was made archbishop of Paris in 1981 and was one of the most prominent members of the College of Cardinals for more than two decades, embodying precisely the Catholicism imagined by Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council: a Church engaged with the modern world; a Church that had opened its windows to modernity; but also a Church that asked modernity to open its windows to the worlds of transcendent truth and love.
I heard Cardinal Lustiger give the keynote address at the October 21, 1998 John Paul II Symposium in Mundelein, Illinois. His address, titled "Twenty Years of John Paul II's Pontificate", described John Paul II as, in various ways, the pope of the Second Vatican Council.
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