Pope: Cardinal Quezada Toruno served Church with intensity
Pope Benedict XVI has sent a telegram of condolence to Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian
Morales S.D.B. of Guatemala, Guatemala, for the death of Cardinal Rodolfo Ignacio
Quezada Toruno, archbishop emeritus of that metropolitan see. Cardinal Quezada Toruno
died yesterday at the age of 80. In the telegram the Pope asks the Lord to grant
His peace to a man who "served the Church with such intensity and generosity during
his pastoral ministry, as guide of the diocese of Zacapa and prelate of Santo Cristo
de Esquipulas, then as archbishop of the metropolitan see of Guatemala. "With faith
in the Paschal Mystery of Christ which illuminates moments of suffering and fills
them with hope, and in recollection of a pastor committed to the mission of evangelisation",
the Pope concludes, "I am pleased to impart my special apostolic blessing to those
mourning such a touching loss".