Last August the world lost one of its foremost ecumenists and spiritual leaders. Br. Roger Schutz, founder and prior of the ecumenical religious community of Taizé in Eastern France, was stabbed to death by a Romanian woman suffering from schizophrenia. It happened during an evening prayer service in the presence of thirty-five hundred people, most of them young pilgrims wh (...)
The Last Word
An Abyss of Charity
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