Can a Calvinist minister be a Catholic? The curious case of the founder of Taizé
August 25, 2008
Brother Roger Schutz, the founder and longtime leader of the ecumenical Taizé community, regularly received Communion at Taizé, and before his death in 2005 he also received the Eucharist personally from Pope John Paul II and the future Pope Benedict XVI (at his predecessor's funeral). Yet Brother Roger remained a Protestant minister, and the Taizé community denied reports of a secret conversion.
Cardinal Walter Kasper attempts to explain how someone can be both Protestant and Catholic. Sandro Magister observes: "According to Kasper, it is as if there had been an unwritten agreement between Schutz and the Church of Rome, 'crossing certain confessional' and canonical limits."
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