PARIS — Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a convert from Judaism who sought to bring the faiths closer during his extraordinary life, is carrying on the mission in death — with a funeral rich in symbolism ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a confidant of Pope John Paul II and a Jewish convert to Catholicism who lost his mother at Auschwitz, has retired as archbishop of Paris at age 78, ...

The Bishop of Orleans, a converted Jew, is driving back to Paris when his car breaks down and he’s rescued by a car full of denim-clad French proto-punks. Why don’t they go to mass? he asks. This is ...

Mark Silk at RNS has some interesting observations on the showing of a film about Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish convert who became Archbishop of Paris, at a recent Jewish film festival.

PARIS (Reuters) - France bade farewell to Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Friday in a ceremony that mixed prayers from his Jewish roots with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, a faith to which he ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism and became archbishop of Paris, has died of cancer aged 80, the Paris archdiocese said on Sunday. The son of ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been vacationing in the United States, rattling the French by snubbing the Riviera or the Alps for New Hampshire. Sarkozy flies back to France to attend the ...