PARIS -- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was the son of a Holocaust victim and converted from Judaism to become one of France’s most influential Roman Catholic figures, died Sunday. He was 80.

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and rose through church hierarchy to become one of the most influential Roman Catholic figures in France, died Sunday, the Paris ...

Jews and Catholics joined in homage Friday, intoning a sacred Jewish prayer beneath the sculpted saints of Notre Dame Cathedral at the funeral of the Jewish-born Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lustiger ...

Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris and one of the key players on the European stage during the second half of the 20th century, died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 80.

“The Jewish Cardinal” (“Le Metis de Dieu”), the 2012 French film shown at the New York Film Festival, is a fascinating puzzler. “To become a Christian I did not reject my Judaism” is the mantra of ...

When Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger died on August 5, 2007, his funeral Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral began with the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It was an unconventional liturgy for a man ...