Cardinal Keith O'Brien, President of the Bishops' Confernce of Scotland has written to the Archbishop of Paris, Archbishop André Vingt-Trois expressing his condolences and those of the Bishops of Scotland following the death of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris. Cardinal Lustiger who died on Sunday aged 80 was the only Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism to become a French bishop in modern times. The text of Cardinal O'Brien's letter is shown below.

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