In Memoriam Frere Roger

Roger Schutz, better known (and loved) as Frere Roger (= Brother Roger) all around the planet by my generation, is dead. He's been stabbed to death at the age of 90, while praying in the Église de la Reconciliation in Taizé. His brutal and undeserved death barely made it to the news, every religious news agency being busy kissing the ass of Pope frigging Ratzinger who did the popularity dance of the big Youth Convention in Cologne.

I don't have the talent to give a proper eulogy, but I just can't bear him to go unnoticed and unappreciated, so I'll try to explain you who he was for me and the likes of me, especially the ones behind the Iron Curtain.

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News article about his death:
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=119753&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28151

And I found this good picture of him in an article:
http://www.clie.es/?page=shop/author&author_id=1473

I know his successor, Brother Alois, personally, too. I've had a few nice conversations with him and we wrote each other while I was in a German convent. He's a good guy, and I don't doubt that he'll lead the community well - but it just won't be the same.

Edit:
Ummm... I just realized that I've mixed up Brother Alois with Brother Armin. It was Armin with whom I had both the conversations and the correspondence. Although I met Alois, too. It's their fault for having all those similar names.