Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per la scomparsa dell’Em.mo Card. Gerald Emmett Carter, Arcivescovo emerito di Toronto (Canada), inviato dal Santo Padre all’Em.mo Card. Aloysius M. Ambrozic, Arcivescovo di Toronto:

CARDINAL ALOYSIUS M. AMBROZIC

ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO

DEEPLY SADDENED UPON LEARNING OF THE DEATH OF CARDINAL GERALD EMMETT CARTER, ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS OF TORONTO, I SEND CONDOLENCES TO YOU AND THE FAITHFUL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE. WITH GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF CARDINAL CARTER’S MANY YEARS OF SELFLESS SERVICE BOTH AS ARCHBISHOP OF THE CHURCH IN TORONTO AND AS A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, I OFFER FERVENT PRAYERS THAT GOD THE FATHER OF MERCIES WILL GRANT ETERNAL REST TO HIM AND EVERY SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION TO THOSE WHO MOURN HIS PASSING. TO THE CLERGY RELIGIOUS AND LAITY OF

THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO I CORDIALLY IMPART MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF STRENGTH AND PEACE IN OUR RISEN SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

IOANNES PAULUS PP. II

[00520-02.01] [Original text: English]