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MercurysBall2 ago

Second Templeton Prize winner, 1974 - Frère Roger, Founder of the Taizé Community

Founder of Taize Is Murdered- https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-135968091/founder-of-taize-is-murdered

The death of the 90-year-old founder of the Taize Community in France at the hands of a woman wielding a knife shocked world Christian leaders. Roger Schutz was killed August 16 as he prayed during a gathering of 2,500 young pilgrims at the community's center in Burgundy. Police arrested a 36-year-old Romanian woman thought to be mentally ill.

Murdered sect leader 'was secret Catholic' - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/murdered-sect-leader-was-secret-catholic-6231707.html

However, some Protestant leaders, while backing Taizé's work, became disturbed by what they saw as Brother Roger's drift towards Catholicism. At the funeral of Pope John Paul II last year, Brother Roger was seen to take communion from the hands of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. The future Pope Benedict XVI had always opposed proposals that, in the name of Christian unity, Protestants should be allowed to participate in the Catholic mass.

Seems he and Ratzinger were good buds.. https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/cardinal-joseph-ratzinger-hugs-the-founder-of-the-nachrichtenfoto/161450223