On April 19 last year, in the crypt of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, churchman, ecumenical pioneer, former Papal Nuncio, Sostituto (deputy) for General Affairs to the Secretary of State of the Holy See, tireless advocate of respect for the people of the first Covenant, was interred, after a two-and-a-half-hour Requiem Mass presided over by the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, fellow bishops, clergy and a packed congregation. The presence of members of Jewish, Orthodox Christian and various Protestant denominations at the funeral indicated that this was no…
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