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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

47of74

(18,470 posts) Fri Apr 17, 2015, 03:40 PM Apr 2015

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Cardinal George has died

From Chicago;

Cardinal Francis George, the first Chicago native to serve as the local archbishop and a man who during that 17-year tenure became the intellectual leader of the American church, died Friday morning at his home after a years long struggle with cancer. He was 78.

"A man of peace, tenacity and courage has been called home to the Lord," George's successor, Archbishop Blase Cupich, said during a brief announcement Friday afternoon.

He said George died at 10:45 a.m. at his home.

Cupich remembered George as “always choosing the church over his own comfort, and the people over his own needs.

RIP Francis Cardinal George.