Vatican City, Jan 26, 2017 / 06:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Cardinal Roger Etchegaray leaves Rome to retire to France, his homeland, an era has closed.

He was a bishop without emblem or motto, but he was committed to peace and to the human person. Cardinal Etchegaray epitomizes all the characteristics of the modern Church. If there is something we deem to be new, it is possible he had done it already.