Vatican City, Jan 12, 2012 / 12:05 pm
The new head of the Vatican's social communications council Archbishop Claudio Celli recalled the rich legacy of his predecessor, Cardinal John Patrick Foley, who died on Dec. 11.
Archbishop Celli remembered the American cardinal as “a man of faith, an evangelizer and a communicator” at a Mass celebrated at the Church of St. Mary in the Roman suburb of Traspontina.
“In him one could not only discover but also see the face of a Church able to speak to the world with cordiality and to dialogue with the utmost openness, without ever imposing the truth,” he said on Dec. 11.
Cardinal Foley passed away at the age of 76 in Pennsylvania after a struggle with leukemia and other ailments.