Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Christians and Jews

This volume collects a variety of important speeches and interviews of 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 interreligious efforts of Pope John Paul II. Included in this volume are several of Lustiger's most important addresses.

Jean Duchesne is a professor of English at Condorcet College, Paris. He has served as special adviser to the archbishops of Paris since 1984. He is Cardinal Lustiger's literary executor.