Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini passed away

Thousands paid their respects at his coffin in Milan Cathedral on Saturday.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini

 Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini’s death has marked a huge loss the life of the Catholic Church in the last 30 years. Having been Archbishop of Milan for 22 years, Carlo Maria Martini was often considered as a sort of antagonist of John Paul II, the Pope who had chosen him as leader of the largest diocese in Europe and one of the most important dioceses in the world, at the age of fifty two.

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