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1. What a wonderful tribute to a courageous man! He deserves nothing less.
   May it become an annual event.
   A pilgrimage has a two-fold purpose: one goes on a journey outwards to remember and celebrate; but also one goes on a journey inwards to reflect and be transformed.
   Martini would be delighted to think that his life and work were responsible for initiating these two particular journeys - and that his Jewish friends were responsible for making them possible.

   Posted By: Garry

2. This is a fitting memorial for Cardinal Martini, a leader who believed passionately in Vat II's vision of the Catholic Church opening up to the modern world.
   He was especially committed to the teaching of Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae and the power of Abrahamitic faith to bind together the human family.
   At the end of his life, he admitted that one of his griefs was to see important reform elements of Vatican II not achieving the traction he had hoped for.
   In fact, he is on record as saying that the Church was now two hundred years behind the world it was commissioned to serve as Paul VI had written in Ecclesiam Suam.
   Desmond O'Grady recently completed a Commonweal Magazine interview with Bp Luigi Bettazzi, one of the few surviving Council 'Fathers.'
   O'Grady asked the bishop what he thought Carlo Martini might have meant by mentioning the figure 'two hundred years.'
   Bp Bettazzi replied, 'Maybe he meant only a hundre years. I think he meant that many have backtracked to a pre-conciliar mentality or have never gone beyond it.'
   There's plenty of evidence to support that.

   Posted By: David Timbs

3. Beautiful and fitting, as Cardinal Martini deserved.

   Posted By: Joan Seymour

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