Cardinal Urbano Navarrete died Monday, at the age of 90.
A
Jesuit priest and professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian
University for more than 2 decades before becoming Rector of the
University in 1980, Fr. Navarrete was created Cardinal in the consistory
of 2007.
Pope Benedict XVI sent a telegram of condolence today to the General of the Society of Jesus, Father Adolfo Nicholas, SJ.
In
the telegram, the Pope celebrates the late Cardinal Navarrete as
someone for whom he always nurtured profound esteem, both for his life
of Christian witness as a man of religion, and for his exemplary service
as a teacher who formed several generations of Christians and
especially of priests.
A Funeral Mass was said for Cardinal Navarrete in St. Peter’s Basilica yesterday (Wednesday) November 24th, at 11:30 AM Rome Time.
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