Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per la scomparsa - avvenuta questa mattina - dell’Em.mo Card. Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Arcivescovo emerito di Seoul (Corea), inviato dal Santo Padre Benedetto XVI all’Arcivescovo di Seoul, Card. Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk:

TO MY VENERABLE BROTHER

CARDINAL NICHOLAS CHEONG JINSUK

ARCHBISHOP OF SEOUL

DEEPLY SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE DEATH OF CARDINAL STEPHEN KIM SOU-HWAN, I OFFER HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO YOU AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF KOREA. RECALLING WITH GRATITUDE CARDINAL KIM’S LONG YEARS OF DEVOTED SERVICE TO THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN SEOUL AND HIS MANY YEARS OF FAITHFUL ASSISTANCE TO THE HOLY FATHER AS A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, I JOIN YOU IN PRAYING THAT GOD OUR MERCIFUL FATHER WILL GRANT HIM THE REWARD OF HIS LABOURS AND WELCOME HIS NOBLE SOUL INTO THE JOY AND PEACE OF THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM. TO CARDINAL KIM’S RELATIVES AND ALL ASSEMBLED FOR THE SOLEMN MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL I CORDIALLY IMPART MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF CONSOLATION AND STRENGTH IN THE LORD.

BENEDICTUS PP. XVI

[00283-02.01] [Original text: English]

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