Vatican City, Sep 6, 2011 / 22:21 pm
Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur, former president of the Pontifical Council of Social Communications, died on Sept. 3 at the age of 87. Pope Benedict XVI remembered him as “one of the most illustrious sons” of the Archdiocese of Krakow.
Pope Benedict said the cardinal was linked by “profound ties of friendship” to Bl. Pope John Paul II and left the memory of a life spent in “coherent and generous dedication to his vocation as a pious and zealous priest.”
The Pope also praised Cardinal Deskur’s “valuable collaboration” with the Holy See, especially in communications media.
His comments came in a Sept. 5 telegram to Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow.