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Died. Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, 85. Archbishop of Lyons, early advocate of ecumenism, champion of French worker-priests, and central figure in French Agnostic Edouard Herriot's 1957 deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism; of a heart attack; in Lyons...
...uneasiness of French youth about bearing arms in the sixth year of the Algerian war, the teachers' union issued a manifesto that "the problem of youth has now become the problem of the nation." Young Frenchmen have gone to jail for aiding the rebel FLN. Lyons' Cardinal Gerlier asked prayers to end "the devastating war in Algeria and the terrible problems it poses to the consciences of many, particularly among the young...
...their part, Roman Catholics have taken a lively interest in the Taizé experiment. France's Cardinal Gerlier wrote a foreword to a book by Founder Schutz explaining Taizé's Rule, a book that was brought out by a Catholic publishing house. "Tomorrow's generations," says Brother-Prior Schutz, "will have less and less patience with the division of Christians into different confessions. They will no longer tolerate the loss of energy used to legitimatize confessional positions, while -by the dizzying increase of population-men without knowledge of God grow more numerous...
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
...Cardinal Gerlier, onetime Bishop of Lourdes, walked slowly to the pulpit and looked down at the long line of wheelchairs in the front row of the congregation. "Lourdes is a land of miracles," he said, "but it is above all a place where an avalanche of grace takes place. It is a real hospital for souls...