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Issue Date: February 8, 2008 PEOPLE Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, died Jan. 30 at the age of 87 in the United States. Maciel was notified by the Vatican in 2006 that he could not publicly practice his priestly ministries after the Vatican investigated claims of sexual abuse made by former seminarians of the order. Funeral services are to be private. Chess legend Bobby Fischer, who died Jan. 17, was buried as a Catholic, according to reports from Agence France-Presse. Presiding at the funeral was Fr. Jakob Rolland of the diocese of Reykjavik, the capital of Fischers adopted home, Iceland. Fischer, 64, was born into a Jewish family in New York. Asking people to respect the intensely private Fischer, Rolland said, I dont know if he converted to the Catholic faith, but that doesnt mean he didnt.
Archbishop Christodoulos, the 69-year-old primate of the Greek Orthodox church, died Jan. 28 in Athens after a long struggle with intestinal and liver cancer. Pope Benedict XVI called Christodoulos a distinguished pastor who opened a new era of cordial cooperation between Catholics and Orthodox. NCR readers will note that under Christodoulos the Greek Orthodox church in 2004 restored the order of diaconate for women. National Catholic Reporter, February 8, 2008 |
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