Vatican City, 2 December 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has sent a telegram of condolences to the Prepositor
General of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, for the
death in Tokyo, Japan of Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J., former
secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, at the age of
86.
The Pope describes the archbishop as an
“exemplary minister of God, who lived for the cause of the Gospel”
and underlines his “generous missionary apostleship” in Japan,
where his earthly existence came to an end. He also gives thanks to
the Lord for the service Archbishop Pittau rendered to the Apostolic
See as Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, for his
commitment as rector of the Sophia University of Tokyo, and as
Magnificent Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, as
well as for his devotion to the Society of Jesus. The Pope entrusts
the soul of the departed to the maternal intercession of the Virgin
Mary, “in the light of Christ's resurrection”, and imparts an
apostolic blessing to those who mourn the late archbishop's passing.
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